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Quantum Theory, Groups, and Representations (book): https://amzn.to/316iAjf
Love and Math (book): https://amzn.to/3If7B8m
The Second Creation (book): https://amzn.to/3rlWzIu

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:23 - Physics vs mathematics
14:52 - Beauty of mathematics
36:43 - String theory
1:05:16 - Theory of everything
1:25:24 - Twistor theory and spinors
1:41:51 - Nobel Prize likelihood for theory of everything
1:45:37 - Simulating physics
1:49:08 - Sci-Fi, aliens and space
1:58:20 - Responsibility of scientists

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