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<p>[00:39:33] So we have to, in some sense, begin to undo some of what we think we know, in order to truly reconsider, and allow me to put some of these ideas before you today. | <p>[00:39:33] So we have to, in some sense, begin to undo some of what we think we know, in order to truly reconsider, and allow me to put some of these ideas before you today. | ||
<p>[00:39:47] Marcus asked me to begin presenting these ideas here. And hopefully this is the first opportunity, but if the ideas are not good then lighting on the aisles will lead you to safety and your exits may be behind you. But, in the event of a good flight , hopefully this will begin a conversation rather than be the end of one. | <p>[00:39:47] Marcus asked me to begin presenting these ideas here. And hopefully this is the first opportunity, but if the ideas are not good, then lighting on the aisles will lead you to safety, and your exits may be behind you. But, in the event of a good flight, hopefully this will begin a conversation rather than be the end of one. | ||
<p>[00:40:10] I feel in some sense that I'm presenting the works of another man, a younger man. Someone who came of age right in the middle of the great string theory boom. With the anomaly cancellation in 1984. And I look at this work and I see a young person struggling with the idea, why can't I see that string theory is going to answer all of these questions over the next ten years, as we were told at the time, and making a very dangerous decision, which was, I think I'm not going to follow that particular path, and I'm going to follow another. | <p>[00:40:10] I feel in some sense that I'm presenting the works of another man, a younger man. Someone who came of age right in the middle of the great string theory boom. With the anomaly cancellation in 1984. And I look at this work and I see a young person struggling with the idea, why can't I see that string theory is going to answer all of these questions over the next ten years, as we were told at the time, and making a very dangerous decision, which was, I think I'm not going to follow that particular path, and I'm going to follow another. | ||