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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Geometry Can Be Used to Understand Reality?
The idea that you would spontaneously break out of symmetry, like have these perturbations jump out of symmetry and back. That's a really difficult idea to load into your head. The Greeks were enamored by geometry. They tried to give physical reality to symmetric objects. In modern days we use symmetries not too far away exactly in these kind of thoughts processes.
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