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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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Is String Theory the Final Capstone?

These days, most of the people in the field are more on the geometry side than the particle physics side. The questions that are involving our minds do have a lot to do with gravity as gravity, less so with particle physics as particle physics. Yeah. Absolutely. And I get the impression as someone who is string theory positive, but not involved with it myself, that these days,most of the people were mostly trying to understand unification. That was what got them excited. There was a less of a reaction from the general relativity community where most had been working on the problem of quantum gravity.

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