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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
String Theory Landscape and the Swamp Land
The natural conclusion is that field theories and gravity and quantum theory don't go together. When you put gravity in it, doesn't work. Only rare exceptions work. So therefore, the general principle that fine men found was correct. And by now we have so confident about many such examples that have affected modern mathematics,. We are much more confident about our understanding of what string theories. do.
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