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2025-01-05 19:38:49
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John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…7mqrg - is there such a thing as an "extinction burst" in biology: a ...

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But yes, we grew up in the same era. As an undergrad I saw Witten giving lectures on GUTs and Hawking giving a talk on virtual black holes. The mood was cocky. Among mathematical physicists, the use of algebraic topology to understand anomalies was tremendously exciting.
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