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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Failure Mode?
There's a lot of transparency about communicating the things that failed in the past and so you don't have a clear picture of like firm ground that you're standing on but again those are sociological things. The idea ended up being kind of being essentially empty that it just didn't doesn't end up not telling you anything because it's consistent with just about anything, he says. There's a complex if you try and talk with string theory about this now I mean there's an argument over whether we live in a multiverse and everything is true anyway according to him.
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