Dimitar Sasselov - What are the Ultimate Questions of Nature?

What are the most fundamental questions, the most penetrating questions, that we can ask of the natural world? Stretch your mind. Envision all manner of things, whether in the ‘heavens’ or on the Earth. What might be the ultimate theories of a future physics? What are the bounds of science? Have no constraints on your questions. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Watch more interviews on the mystery of existence: https://bit.ly/3GaxFlM Sasselov has been a professor at Harvard since 1998. He arrived to CfA in 1990 as a Harvard-Smithsonian Center post-doctoral fellow. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the Head Tutor of the Astronomy Department. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.