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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity

I was doing quantum gravity and I wanted to, that was my main interest throughout my thesis. It would sit interesting, you know, the interesting problem. So it wasn't where my real passion lied. And I guess somewhere around 1983, yeah, 1983 it would have been. The theory was presented in a very particle physics like language. so I felt I had to learn it because somebody claimed to have solved the problem that I was working on.

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