“How can we understand the world in which we find...

â€Å"How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves?† In The Grand Design, a 2010 book written by theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, two authors claim that they have found a philosophical approach – Model Dependent Realism (MDR) – as the solution to this fundamental question of philosophy. Combining the ideas raised from methodology of mathematics and Physics, MDR leads a possible path to reconcile the uncertain nature of modern science and the idealistic pursuit of absolute truth – perhaps the theory of everything (TOE). According to Hawking and Leonard, Model Dependent Realism â€Å"is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"According to the traditional conception of the universe, objects move on well-defined paths and have definite histories,† Hawking writes, â€Å"We can specify their preci se position at each moment in time.† The advent of modern physics, however, suggests that although such model explains everyday observations, it fails to account for the behaviors of particles in a subatomic level. One of the most famous is the Observer’s Effect, according to which one can never determine a photon’s path and detect its existence at the same time, because while detecting its existence one has to collide it with another particle and thus making it go to a certain direction. Therefore, when not detected, a light beam behaves like a wave that goes to numerous possible paths simultaneously – the light is at the same time going through path A and non-path A. 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