Andrew Strominger

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930 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2023 last heard Feb 2023

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Small area.

There isn't like a huge area with a sign, here lie problems that are doable and people want to know the answer.

With timing.

I mean, I think earlier in my career, I erred more on the side of problems that were not solvable.

I wanted to reach nirvana, and I sort of realized that wasn't going to happen.

And then after that, I wanted to know the meaning of life, and I realized I probably wasn't going to figure that out.

And then I wanted to understand, you know,

justice and socialism and world things and couldn't figure those out either.

I mean, most of this I'm talking about adolescence, but it was the biggest problem

That I thought that there was a prospect of, but not 100%, you know, and I was definitely ready to spend my time.

my life in the wilderness knocking my head against the wall, but I haven't had to.

I haven't solved them, but I've said enough interesting things that you're interviewing me.

So I'm not in the wilderness, but yeah, so.

you know, a summer in Italy or something, it's like there's results that are there that people are, and that's what's so gratifying

I mean, of course one's name disappears from these things, unless you're Einstein or Newton or something.

People are not gonna remember my name in 50 years.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

So I have not.

I hope someday, but I have not.

There are some experiments now to verify some of my predictions about properties of gravity and so on, but I have not like...

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