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Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Strength Theory, Is It Fundamental or Does It Exist?

strength theory is an enormously large mutually reinforcing collection of mathematical facts in which we can find no contradictions. We don't know why it's there, but we can certainly say that without challenge. There has been a very heated debate about whether strength theory is some sort of hysteria among the community of theoretical physicists or whether it has something fundamental to say about our universe. I probably will not live to find out. This is going to be the work of probably some future either mathematicians' physicists to figure out what these things actually mean.

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