Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Impossibility: The Limits of Science
•
Gresham College
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Are there limits to science? We will look first at the questions which 19th-century commentators claimed would never be answered. Then we will explore the different types of limits - practical, computational, and fundamental - that constrain what we can know about the universe. Some of these limits are consequences of our nature, some are consequences of the universe's nature, while others are consequences of the nature of knowledge itself.