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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Way to Replace Intuition?
I wonder if it's possible to meditate to sort of escape through thinking, prolonged thinking and meditation on a world. The more I talk to the topologists, the more they seem to not operate at all in the visual space. They really trust the mathematics, which is really annoying to me because topology and differential geometry feels like it has a lot of potential for beautiful pictures. We should not shy from using complicated math like Einstein did. Nobody wouldn't say I'm not going to touch this math because it's too much tensors or curvature. And so we have learned that the physics may or may not require a complicated math. Both are physically amazingly important.
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