{"id":14939,"date":"2025-06-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14939"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:31:27","slug":"hierarchy-problem-reductionism-physics-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/hierarchy-problem-reductionism-physics-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Reality Isn&#8217;t Built from the Bottom Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Crisis In Physics: Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cY6Y4lE3LTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For centuries, science has relied on reductionism\u2014the idea that reality is built from the bottom up. 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