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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Quantum Mechanics the End of the Story?

"I don't believe any of the laws of physics we know today are currently exactly correct," he says. "That doesn't bother me. I'm not like dogmatic. I have figured out this is the law of nature. I know everything." The next thing that improves quantum mechanics will be to find a new antiparticle, which has opposite properties to an electron but with positive charge.

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