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#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

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The Three Paradigms of Modern Physics

Most of the work we do is in Euclidean signature and then there's this one freakish case of relativity theory in physics. And I don't even know what to do about more than one temporal dimension because I think almost no one studies that. We have these three kinds of equations that are very important to us: elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic. So those are the basic paradigms for most of the work that we do.

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