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#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Inconsistency of String Theory
One supposition that the world is made of strings solves two problems. But those inconsistencies can give birth to other theories, like you said, right? Something else could have happened. We found an alternate description of certain black holes in string theory which we could prove was equivalent. And this idea that you could describe things very, very crunked greatly in string theory took off and was applied to many, many different, many different contexts within string string theory.
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