PBS Spacetime Presents: “Theory of Everything” Livestream Max Tegmark, James Beacham, Stephon Alexander (#061)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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The Falsifiability of String Theory
Stefan Edlund: We find ourselves with the experimental floor dropped from beneath our feet and we're trying to navigate in this realm of pure mathematical and theoretical landscape. Even Paul Dirac said that it's better to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment, which by that I think he meant that experiments can be wrong. But if your equation is ugly, it's definitely not right. Why is it that this mathematical elegance leads us so truly, even if it does sometimes lead us astray? You know, a lot of the things we've been discussing here.
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