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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

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Is There a Revolution in Newtonian Mechanics

Euler and Lagrange reformulated Newtonian mechanics in a totally different way. They said if you want to know where a particle at this point and at this time, how does it get to this point at the later time? Is the following. And so this fact turned out to be the reformulation of quantum mechanics. We should start there as the basis of the new law, which is quantum mechanics.

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