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Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory

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The Proton Substructure Is Changing Our Concepts of Space and Time

strength theory shows that you can smoothly deform one topology of manifold into another by making the geometry singular. What happens when you reach a singularity is the these other extra objects, the strings, the brains, et cetera, some of them become light. And when they become light, they can condense. It's a little bit like we were talking before about phases of matter like steam and water. So i should not be sufficient in any sense it's, yes. We're going to have to develop neutuent intuitions.

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