{"id":203621,"date":"2025-01-12T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/reality-goes-beyond-physics"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:07:38","slug":"reality-goes-beyond-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/reality-goes-beyond-physics","title":{"rendered":"Reality goes beyond physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reality-goes-beyond-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Of all the sciences, physics has been seen as the key to understanding everything. As Feynman said, \u201cphysics is the fundamental science.\u201d But in this article, one of the world\u2019s leading physicists, George F. R. Ellis, who collaborated with Stephen Hawking in work on spacetime\u2019s geometry, argues that much of reality extends far beyond physics. Both complex objects like biological organisms and abstract entities like the rules of chess influence the world in ways that cannot be predicted by studying their simple physical constituents. Science, Ellis insists, is far richer than any single framework can ever capture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Abstract Causation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign up<\/strong> to get exclusive access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the sciences, physics has been seen as the key to understanding everything. As Feynman said, \u201cphysics is the fundamental science.\u201d But in this article, one of the world\u2019s leading physicists, George F. R. Ellis, who collaborated with Stephen Hawking in work on spacetime\u2019s geometry, argues that much of reality extends far beyond physics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}