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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Lessons to Be Learned From Theories Like That From Eric Leeses

There is no simple process for collapsing it to four dimensions you'd have to explain well yeah and in his i forget in his case but it's not just four dimensions it's also these structures you see in the standard model. The problem with this has been a problem since the beginning almost immediately after 1973 about a year later two years later people started talking about grand unified theories. You take the u1 the su2 and the su3 and you put them in together into this bigger structure called the su5 or s0-10 but then you're stuck with this problem that wait a minute now how why does the world not lookwhy do i not see these su5 cemeteries in

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