The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 134 of 254
Nothing but the stuff of physics
the third truth: that there is no stuff in the universe other than the stuff of physics. Not so long ago, you could have put that same basic thought in simpler terms and it would probably have been more persuasive: there is nothing in the universe apart from matter. That formulation has become both less persuasive and less accurate, since developments in physics have changed the way we think about the fundamental constituents of the universe. The best simplification we can now come up with is that the universe is at root comprised of energy, but at the smallest,…