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Jun 2013
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S. James Gates — Uncovering the Codes fo...

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Are we in the matrix? Physicist James Gates reveals why string theory stretches our imaginations about the nature of reality. Also, how failure makes us more complete, and imagination makes us more knowledgeable. 
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