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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Can Physics Help Us Understand Life?

'We don't claim that string theory is the theory of everything in the sense that we know enough what this theory is,' he says. 'I would not put a board there to say, no, you know, from this point onwards, it's not my territory, somebody else's'. But whether we need new ideas and string theory to describe other reality, reality features, for sure, I believe, as I mentioned, I don't believe anything.'

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