Why is there a world that works so well? How does the cosmos generate diversity and opportunity? A major reason is innumerable regularities, which we call laws of nature, make things happen. But which of these laws are ‘fundamental’ in the sense that they are the most basic? We search for the deep building blocks of the world.
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David Z Albert, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the MA Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia. He received his BS in physics from Columbia College (1976) and his doctorate in theoretical physics from The Rockefeller University (1981).
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