Andrew Strominger

you know, most of what I've done is in the, you know, it could happen still.

It's still a logical possibility that everything having to do with string theory and the, I mean, as we mentioned, I'm betting the farm that it's not, but it is indeed a logical possibility that people would say, can you believe Lex Fridman interviewed Elon Musk and Kanye West and

And he interviewed Strominger, who was working on this theory that just completely went into the toilet.

It could happen.

It could happen.

And of course, if that couldn't happen, it wouldn't be real exploration, right?

Absolutely.

But I do take a lot of satisfaction that some of the things I discovered are...

at the minimum, mathematical truths, and they're still... So you don't have that sort of nostalgic feeling of it being something that was gone, and I'm still making discoveries now that I'm as excited about.

We'll see if they hold the test of time, that stand the test of time that these other ones did, but that I'm as excited about as I...

was about those when I made them.

I am easily excitable, as my friends will tell you.

Well, one interesting thing about you is- And I have been very excited about things which turned out to be completely wrong, you know?

Yeah, I mean, when they have a measurement of string theory, the fun's over.

Then we have to go on to something new, you know?

it is hard to understand why there would, given that there's so many planets and of course there's Drake's formula and we don't exactly know what the, but I mean, I think Fermi's paradox that, you know, is a real paradox.

And I, I think there, there probably are.

And, uh, I think it's very exciting that, uh,

You know, we might, you know, find some, it's a logical possibility that we could learn about it.

Like trying to make sense of like- Though they might be more different than we think.