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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Theory of Everything That Unifies General Relativity and Quantum Field Theories

We want to know what aspects of our universe is force on us, like the weak gravity conjecture and other aspects. Do we under how much of them do we understand? Can we have particles lighter than neutrinos? Or maybe that's not possible. And so they're beginning to be these connections between graph consistency of quantum gravity and aspects ofOur universe gradually being sharpened. We are still far from a precise quantitative prediction, like we have to have such and such, but that's the hope that we are going in that direction.

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