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2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Quantum Gravity - Is the Free Market Working Well?

There's a feeling that there's been unfairness in how the representation of these different approaches to quantum gravity has been distributed throughout academia. I personally think that string theory has a good reason to be a the leading candidate, but i also think th t it would be very healthy for the field to be doing various other things. A, with all a respect and and appreciation for strength yeri this is not far from me for saying that strength try should not be founded, should be thrown out of university, or anything like that. O, what are your feelings about the fairness? Is the freemarket of ideas working well here? Or is there should we are we not being quite fair enough

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