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Brian Green on what space looks like from a String Theory perspective.
https://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory/up-next?language=en

Interesting in relation to this article.

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Yes, thanks. I've met and spoke with him several times. Been a few years now, though. I live in Manhattan, a few miles from where he works at Columbia U, and used to regularly attend astronomy lectures and telescope viewing sessions at Pupin Hall, CU's main science building. Ran into Green a few times there, and at other places. IMO, there are other more interesting and, more importantly, more probable, episodes/topics from that excellent PBS series that he did than this one.

Because String Theory is way out there in terms of speculation. Instinct tells me it doesn't come close to accurately explaining or describing the fundamental nature of reality, if such a single explanation of reality even exists. ie, there is a near-infinite number of perspectives in which to view or experience the universe. In other words, from the perspective of something residing in the realm of quantum mechanics, its experience is completely different than something in the macroscopic/everyday world. How can we possibly select one of these countless possibilities and decide that it is the correct and only perspective in which to describe the universe.