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wow, that was a tour de force. perfect compression on the topic

Dear Prof Thank you for.all the lessons i believe to understand and achieved🙈 W=k(S) does this make sense? Best Cleaning Lady Berlin, Germany

Obsolete. See Don Hoffman

Your love for fellow man / woman shines through

Can he write an accessible book about his Swampland Program?

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Allan Holdsworth!

thanks!

Enjoying! Thank you!

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String theory has some major issues like the fact that there is no consensus on how many extra dimensions there are. Pretty weak, no doubt the math is super fun if you’re into math.

i was doing uber eats around pasadena, sucks. so i had to pay this dude a visit.

Also the bid about Skirts is so not true.

Has anyone else noticed that the more chatty or humorous the interviewee the more pseudo-science they spout?

No one in the comment section commented about the 'landscape', Vafa debunked Susskind's landscape, but Lee Smolin's landscape is my favorite. He explains how natural selection decides the 20 fine tuned values of the parameter space.

Success of string theory rests on quantum complementarity explained by Bohr (particles and waves) and given a more modern version by Susskind in which Alice jumps into the BH while Bob watches her fall, with two different experiences. Alice doesn't feel anything but Bob notices a pile up on the horizon of everything falling into BH. This BH complementarity along with duality Holographic Principle of string theory enabled to describe the fluid of the material that makes up the BH, with exact calculation of its mass and quantum gravity. Not yet displayed experimentally, but soon will be.

It's not that String Theory lives in 10 dimensions, it's that we've had to mathematically give it 10 dimensions in order to shoehorn it into our observations. Sean was absolutely correct in pointing out that the answers Cumrun was giving were abstract, because it's too complicated to have any specific detail. It's the theoretical physicist's version of a religion, complete with the revelations-style Armaggedon prophecy of a metastable universe.

Having a PhD in theoretical physics, I usually have at least a basic idea of what's going on when it comes to a topic in physics. But here I had no idea what Cumrun was even talking about 😂

Mother fucking ghost girl randomly scared me

Now I am starting to understand what Eric Weinsten complains about.

String theroy is real as hairs on my ballsak

What's with the random noises? Like at 46:02.

boy, i dont think of a virtual reality as being meaningful. by virtual reality, i am talking about something other than god creating it. if i knew i was some figment of some being's imagination, pull the plug on me. i choose non-existence over that.

big is a relative term. the universe is gigantic to us. what if the simulators come from a universe that makes ours look tiny ? btw, i think the evidence is overwhelming that god exists. but just noting the comments about this universe being awfully large for someone to simulate such a size

And here I thought that string theory was out in never never land…. Then here come Dr Vafa dropping dark energy and dark matter on the table in the most beautiful way possible. Just wow

I was going to go to sleep… about 2.2 hours ago. Great episode 👍🏻

Another home run from Mindscape!

until western science starts to study near death experiences, they will forever be missing something.

Thing is is language in general can not explain experience how in words coule you translate hearing taste sight or touch they are sensations. Do but tht logic consciousness will never be understood

Cumrun lol

The next AMA likely to be full of what did Cumrun mean😅

I beg you übersmart people to fix Fukushima as it is an extinction level event ❤

Very excited to listen to this! My favourite Mindscape episodes are about physics beyond the standard model and string theory.

8 years at University two degrees and I'm feeling stupid 😂

Excellent episode, as usual. Thank you. Can't wait to (try) read the book. I just came to say the best pop culture reference of Schrodinger I've ever seen (have there been many?) was on a 2010 episode of the Simpsons called "Moneybart". Lisa has to take over as coach of Bart's baseball team. She knows nothing about baseball but in classic Lisa style she takes a deep dive into learning as much as she can to do a great job. There is one scene she is at a desk studying up on everything baseball. She is surrounded by a pile of books. Dozens of books. The scene flashed quickly and I saw that most of the books had titles but it was too quick to read them. With DVR I rewound the scene and paused, one of the book titles was "Schrodinger's Bat". Couple things, this flashed by really quickly. Without DVR you'd never catch it. Another thing, how many people watching the Simpsons would get a "Schrodinger" reference even if they did see it? As if we needed any more proof that the Simpson's writers are genius on another level.

If the goal of string theorists was to create the most confusing idea know to man then they have certainly succeeded. Anything beyond that I'm not sure.

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Whoever says string theory doesn’t make predictions… Cumrun just predicted dark matter *might* disappear in 2 trillion years!

was cool

String theory is a waste of time and nonsense

I ask if we can calculate a maximum volume of a univers, Base of planck constant and other universal constants?

Swampland Program Considering: The Salient Philosophy behind the unfolding natural laws of ...harmonics, heuristics, and hierarchics.... coming forth and going forward.

Considering the notions of ...one, many, and infinite.... with the notions of ...particle, string, and wave....

Much enjoyed. glad Cumrun mentioned the circles and torus as its intertwined with topology

Take a day off!😂

We know it is not "correct" in the exact meaning of correct, but I believe that the actual description of reality is almost similar to what M theory predicts. Like a cat is similar to a cyber-bear shooting lasers, sure, but it's someting!

Amazing talk all the best.

Ludovico lami, proposed an experiment that is very promising to quantize gravity, also some claims that pulsar arrays around the world detect primordial gravitational waves......

Eh string theory isn’t really any good.

Just brilliant two great minds that I really appreciate.....