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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
Grand Unified Theory Does Not Include Gravity
Gravity was so off of people's radar screen that the term grand unified was unification of the electric, the electric week and the strong forces in one hole. In Cambridge at that time, there were two or three people discussing it. My thesis advisor who I could quote because he quoted myself told me not to work on it. He would never get a job. And then several decades later when she was giving a colloquium at MIT, he said: "He added good thing he didn't listen to me"
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