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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Change in the Theory of the Universe?
In principle chemistry can be described by quantum mechanics. We don't think there's going to be a magical thing, but chemistry is complicated. There are rules of chemistry that chemists are put down which has not been explained yet using quantum mechanics. So I'm perfectly fine in the intermediate situation to have rules of thumb or principles that chemists have found which are working. If indeed it needs a new ingredient, I will call that new ingredient part of physical law, we have to understand it to me that. But I wouldn't put a line to say, okay, from this point onwards, you cannot,. It's disconnected, it's totally disconnected from string theory or whatever, we must do
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