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A physicist answers the grandest question of all: Why are we here?

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May 16, 2017 6:23 PM

Robbert Dijkgraaf explains how competing physics theories might explain why life exists.

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I’m Robbert Dijkgraaf. I am the the Director and Leon Levy Professor

For instance in quantum mechanics you never know exactly what is going to happen.

So it could be that the intrinsic randomness of quantum theory, the fact that things are not uniform. But they’re always fluctuating a little bit, like the surface of a pool where you have small waves. That actually these small fluctuations give rise to everything that we see around us.

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