Penny Solves String Theory on The Big Bang Theory

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00:00 Precisely. And when you express it in 11 dimensions,

00:03 Einstein's relativity equations pop out.

00:05 Does that sound like a coincidence?

00:06 It does not.

00:07 Yep.

00:08 That's what I think.

00:10 So, so did we do it? Did we just solve string theory?

00:14 Oh, I appreciate your enthusiasm,

00:18 but this is not the sort of thing we can figure out in a night.

00:20 People have been stuck on this for decades.

00:23 What? Decades? Really? It's a string. How hard can it be?

00:28 It's straight, it's in a loop, it gets knotted up with other strings.

00:31 Well, actually, there are no knots in anything greater than four dimensions.

00:35 Unless...

00:38 we get around that by considering them as sheets.

00:42 You know, topologically speaking, that has a lot of interesting possibilities.

00:47 See? How long did that take me? Like a minute.

00:49 (audience laughing)

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