Shawn Ryan

And then that'll change the way that we think of these frameworks being organized and things like that.

But turns out maybe not.

We don't know when the next new discovery is going to be.

And so it's weird because then you're trying to fund an experiment where you don't know what the answer is going to be.

And you're like, how expensive is it to motivate or to build this thing?

Yeah.

But luckily, I'm not as involved in that.

I'm purely theory for the sake of that way I can be decoupled from these high cost

experimental ventures for a bit and then just tackle that problem of kind of like mathematical, I guess, induction or something on the theoretical physics corpus, I think is one way we say it.

So from CERN, I use the fact that it's easier to get into grad school via experimental things to get into grad school at, like I went to Harvard at MIT, grad school options.

I went to Harvard because it would be more easy to pivot, I thought, because I'd already worked for the people at MIT.

And then at Harvard,

I think it was like quantum computing or string theory.

And I thought that quantum computing was overhyped.

So I picked the other one.

And I don't know how people feel.

Like string theory was still cool back then.

And it was like, you know, Brian Greene was very much making it cool when I was a kid.

And I still think it's super cool.

But it's not for the same, like almost for the same reasons that people sometimes hate on it a little bit.