Templeton Foundation awards grants for speculative physics
JUL 31, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020309
Boston Globe : The Foundational Questions Institute, which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation, launched today an ambitious international effort to fund physics research with potential theological implications. The first round of $2,2 million grants will go to 30 physicists at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and other top institutions.The institute will not tackle explicitly religious questions like “Does God exist?” but will instead focus on deep questions in physics that may be too speculative or philosophical for government funding such as whether the fundamental laws of nature seem specially designed to allow life, and whether there are truths about the universe which physics is inherently incapable of proving says the Boston Globe. Read
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