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Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'

The Life Scientific

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Unifying String Theory and Supersymmetry: A Puzzle Solved

The chapter explores the speaker's journey from Harvard to Princeton and their interest in supersymmetry. They discuss a puzzle they encountered in supersymmetric theories, their discovery of the relevance of Morse theory, and how the physics theory helped understand Morse theory and vice versa.

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