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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 a Consistent Set of Behaviors of Objects?

If you have 10 dimensions there's a limited set of behaviors of objects that can occur within those dimensions like in reality yeah. If you have some constraints that mapped reality then you could start saying like dimension number seven is kind of boring all the excitement happens in spatial dimensions one two three and time is also kind of boring. Some are more exciting than others or we can use our metric of beauty some dimensions are more beautiful than others once you have an actual understanding of what actually happens in those dimensions in our physical world as opposed to sort of all the possible things that could happen  in string theory.

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