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For decades, string theory has been hailed as the leading candidate for the theory of everything in our universe. Yet despite its mathematical elegance, the theory still lacks empirical evidence. One of its most intriguing, yet vexing, implications is that if all matter and forces are composed of vibrations of tiny strands of energy, then this allows for a vast landscape of possible universes with different physical properties, varieties of particles and c…
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What we are basically pointing out is that string theory gives you a finite number of possibilities. And cutting the possibility from an infinite set to a finite set is a remarkable reduction.
“the large distance physics can dictate backwards what's going on at shortest scales, which is not like what usually happens in quantum field theories.”
“if you bring these objects together and put them at a distance roughly of a micron or so, you should find the stronger gravitational force between them.”
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