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Pennsylvania who went to a lecture of Ed Witten on string theory in 1980, seemingly three, but Ed Witten doesn't give a lecture on string theory until 1984 after the green Schwartz anomaly cancellation. And in this story where I'm clearly lying, I switched my major from physics to math because I can see the effect that he's just had on a room full of physicists where suddenly everyone has given up like instant learned helplessness. And I never told that story because it's clearly

Source: Geometric Unity: Unifying All Forces + Generations | Eric Weinstein · 02:44:40.479 ↗
Concept: string theory
Score: 5 · never · because
Status: candidate — not yet promoted to canon

Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

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Olive — cited 996x (1979) Dyons of charge eθ/2π — Edward Witten — cited 978x (2007) Electric-magnetic duality and the geometric Langlands program — Anton Kapustin Edward Witten — cited 972x (1998) D-branes and K-theory — Edward Witten — cited 926x (1990) On the structure of the topological phase of two-dimensional gravity — Edward Witten — cited 921x (1979) Instatons, the quark model, and the 1/N expansion — Edward Witten — cited 884x (1994) Monopoles and four-manifolds — Edward Witten — cited 864x (1980) Possible third-order phase transition in the large-<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org…
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02 · openalex0.778
Ostriker Scott Tremaine — cited 1673x (1996) Eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary — Petr Hořava Edward Witten — cited 1648x (1979) Current algebra theorems for the U(1) “Goldstone boson” — Edward Witten — cited 1534x (1982) Supersymmetry and Morse theory — Edward Witten — cited 1490x (2005) Direct Proof of the Tree-Level Scattering Amplitude Recursion Relation in Yang-Mills Theory — Ruth Britto Freddy Cachazo Bo Feng — cited 1484x (1984) Gravitational anomalies — Luis Álvarez-Gaumé Edward Witten — cited 1457x (1999) Ads/CFT correspondence and symmetry breaking — Igor R. …
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03 · openalex0.775
Ostriker Scott Tremaine — cited 19x (2023) A note on the canonical formalism for gravity — Edward Witten — cited 19x (1977) Anomalous cross section for photon-photon scattering in gauge theories — Edward Witten — cited 443x (1986) Spin structures in string theory — Nathan Seiberg Edward Witten — cited 432x (1986) Nonperturbative effects on the string world sheet — Michael Dine Nathan Seiberg Xiao-Gang Wen — cited 387x (1992) On background-independent open-string field theory — Edward Witten — cited 372x (1987) Nonperturbative effects on the string world sheet (II) — Michael Dine Nathan Seiberg…
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04 · openalex0.769
Schwarz Michael Green — cited 129x (2010) Geometric Langlands from six dimensions — Edward Witten — cited 124x (2018) Gauge Theory And Integrability, I — Kevin Costello Edward Witten Masahito Yamazaki — cited 120x (2015) Branes and Supergroups — Victor Mikhaylov Edward Witten — cited 99x (2013) Axion topological field theory of topological superconductors — Xiao-Liang Qi Edward Witten Shou-Cheng Zhang — cited 97x (2018) Symmetry and emergence — Edward Witten — cited 96x (2018) Developments in topological gravity — Robbert Dijkgraaf Edward Witten — cited 92x (2019) A new SU(2) anomaly — Juven W…
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05 · openalex0.765
Schwarz — cited 380x (1987) Superstring Theory: Volume 2, Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology — Michael Green John H. Schwarz Edward Witten — cited 379x (1990) Mean field theory, topological field theory, and multi-matrix models — Robbert Dijkgraaf Edward Witten — cited 371x (1989) Topology-changing amplitudes in 2 + 1 dimensional gravity — Edward Witten — cited 369x (1993) Wess-Zumino-Witten model based on a nonsemisimple group — Chiara R. Nappi Edward Witten — cited 366x (2002) $M$-theory dynamics on a manifold of $G_2$ holonomy — Michael Atiyah Edward Witten — cited 352x (1986) Twi…
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06 · openalex0.762
Sarmadi Edward Witten — cited 734x (2004) MHV Vertices And Tree Amplitudes In Gauge Theory — Freddy Cachazo Peter Svrcek Edward Witten — cited 730x (1996) Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and integrable systems — Ron Donagi Edward Witten — cited 729x (1977) Some Exact Multipseudoparticle Solutions of Classical Yang-Mills Theory — Edward Witten — cited 707x (1997) Black hole entropy in M-Theory — Juan Maldacena Andrew Strominger Edward Witten — cited 699x (1992) Two dimensional gauge theories revisited — Edward Witten — cited 679x (1999) The D1/D5 system and singular CFT — Nathan Seiberg Edward…
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07 · openalex0.754
Horowitz ANDREW STROMINGER — cited 196x (1997) Hyper-Kähler geometry and invariants of three-manifolds — Lev Rozansky Edward Witten — cited 191x (1977) Short distance analysis of weak interactions — Edward Witten — cited 173x (2022) Gravity and the crossed product — Edward Witten — cited 169x (1991) Perturbative expansion of Chern-Simons theory with non-compact gauge group — Dror Bar-Natan Edward Witten — cited 157x (2012) Knot invariants from four-dimensional gauge theory — Davide Gaiotto Edward Witten — cited 153x (1980) Quarks, atoms, and the 1/N expansion — Edward Witten — cited 151x (1989…
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Freed Edward Witten — cited 525x (1997) Vector Bundles and F Theory — Robert Friedman John Morgan Edward Witten — cited 520x (1983) Matter couplings in N = 2 supergravity — Jonathan Bagger Edward Witten — cited 518x (1997) On flux quantization in M-theory and the effective action — Edward Witten — cited 513x (1996) Comments on string dynamics in six dimensions — Nathan Seiberg Edward Witten — cited 512x (1996) Reflections on the Fate of Spacetime — Edward Witten — cited 496x (1996) New = 2 superconformal field theories in four dimensions — Philip C. Argyres M. Ronen Plesser Nathan Seiberg — ci…
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09 · openalex-fanout0.749
- (1998) **The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter** — Nima Arkani–Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos — cited 6548x - (1989) **Classical and quantum conformal field theory** — Gregory Moore, Nathan Seiberg — cited 1358x - (1986) **Conformal invariance, supersymmetry and string theory** — Daniel Friedan, Emil J. Martinec — cited 1315x - (1986) **Conformal invariance, supersymmetry and string theory** — Daniel Friedan, Emil J. Martinec — cited 1114x - (1989) **Low-energy phenomenology of superstring-inspired E6 models** — JoAnne L Hewett — cited 1112x - (1986) **New heterotic string theori…
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10 · yt0.748
Brian Green, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. The Elegant Universe turns 25 this year, just like me. Uh, I wish I could say that about myself. I'd like to get into what's changed, where we're at, but I think it's going to require starting with the question that I'm sure you've never been asked before. What is string theory? Yes. Uh, good question. There are a number of ways of framing what string theory is about, but perhaps from the largest perspective, it's an attempt to realize a dream that really begins with Albert Einstein, which is this idea that we have a single universe. So, we …
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