Andrew Strominger
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And if somebody on another route
Find something that looks really promising.
I'm going to make a portage over the mountain and get on their stream.
So the fact that you don't see the experiment now isn't, to me, a reason to give up on what I view as the most fundamental thing.
paradox in 20th century, in present physics, 20th, 21st century physics.
I'm not against philosophers, it's just not as fun.
He's totally right about that.
Yeah.
Of course, Wolfram's version of that is that physicists will never be able to describe
Yeah, so I had this conversation with Weinberg.
Yeah, how'd it go?
So Weinberg has this book called Dreams of a Final Theory.
Yeah.
And I had this conversation with him.
I said...
why do you think there's ever going to be a final theory?
Why should there ever be a final theory?
I mean, what does that mean?
Do physics departments shut down?
We've solved everything?