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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Duality Fundamental to the Universe?
Is duality fundamental to the universe or is it just because we don't understand it fully? Like that a phenomena could be two things at once and both to be true. Feynman had already mastered this quantum electrodynamics. He said, no problem. Let me do it. Even though these are such weak forces, the gravity is very weak. So therefore to see them, these quantum effects of gravitational waves was impossible. It's even impossible today. And then we get to the puzzle of quantum gravity. The particle description of quantum gravity failed. What do we do with infinity? Let's get to the fun part.
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