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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(07:22) – Physics vs mathematics

(21:51) – Beauty of mathematics

(43:42) – String theory

(1:12:15) – Theory of everything

(1:32:23) – Twistor theory and spinors

(1:48:50) – Nobel Prize likelihood for theory of everything

(1:52:36) – Simulating physics

(1:56:07) – Sci-Fi, aliens and space

(2:05:19) – Responsibility of scientists