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Dreams of a Final Theory
Steven Weinberg
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Steven Weinberg
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This book by Steven Weinberg came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“here at this book I think it was towards the end of the 80s early 90s called dreams of a final theory which is a very lovely quite short book”— guest
The guest here is Harry Cliff: A particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the LHCb experiment at CERN, studying differences between matter and antimatter via beauty quarks. He is also a celebrated science communicator who lectures at the Royal Institution. A Cambridge particle physicist explains the Large Hadron Collider, the standard model, and why the universe exists at all.
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