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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Theory of Quantum Gravity Was Not Solved.
String theory had nothing to do with resolving the problems of gravity with quantum mechanics. It was just trying to explain a process that people were seeing in hydraulic physics collisions. Shirk and Short said, you know what? String theory is theory of quantum gravity. And that's one string theory probably got like exciting that this could be the unifying theory.
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