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"The most popular approach to quantum gravity is string theory. Despite decades of hard work by many very smart people…"

"Quantum theory may be formulated using Hilbert spaces over any of the three associative normed division algebras: the…"

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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man's inability to understand the exponential function."

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