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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do We Come Up With Intuition?
We can have a deep understanding of reality by looking at slices, a lower-dimensional slices. How do we come up with intuition? We borrow examples from the other dimensions, build up intuition and draw the same pictures as if we are talking about ten dimensions. But our words change, but not our pictures. So what you just described is in these high-dimensional spaces, focus on the meeting place of two planes in high- dimensional spaces. Exactly.
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