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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

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Is There a Difference Between Mathematicians and Themselves?

Peter White: In some sense maybe we should talk to mathematicians more yeah yeah maybe but the unfortunately people do have a somewhat correct perception that what these people are doing every day whatever is is pretty far removed from anything. You may learn something very interesting by talking to mathematicians but it's probably not gonna be you're probably not gonna get what you were hoping so when you put the pen and paper down and you just get to breathe in the air and look around you and realize that you're going to die one day you know you think about that your ideas will live on but you the human not not especially much. this well if struggle is somehow a thing that's court meaning perhapsperhaps mathematic

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