(part 1): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation (#106)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Are Alternative Theories of Everything a Good Idea?
Brian Greene: I don't think string theory is still the leading candidate or if it is, it's only because it's greatly diminished and nothing else has taken its place. He says Einstein made an interesting mistake when he started with the concept of space time out of a particular system of rulers and protractors responding to the matter called a four-dimensional extended manifold. Greene: We should be looking at the original four degrees of freedom, together with all possible rulers and protractor that creates a 14-dimensional world. And what we are currently experiencing in my understanding was like you're receiving the image down below inside your submarine," Greene said.
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