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I’ve Spent Something Like 17 Years Working On A Theory For Which There Is Essentially No Direct Experimental Support.

The Main Challenge That Television Presents Is That I Have A Tendency To Say Things With A Great Deal Of Precision And Accuracy. Often A Description Of That Sort, Which Will Work In A Book Because People Can Read It Slowly - They Can Turn The Pages Back And So On - Doesn't Really Work On Tv Because It Interrupts The Flow Of The Moving Image.

Physicists Are More Like Avant-garde Composers, Willing To Bend Traditional Rules... Mathematicians Are More Like Classical Composers.

So: If You Buy The Notion That Reality Consists Of The Things In Your Freeze-frame Mental Image Right Now, And If You Agree That Your Now Is No More Valid Than The Now Of Someone Located Far Away In Space Who Can Move Freely, Then Reality Encompasses All Of The Events In Spacetime.

General Relativity Is In The Old Newtonian Framework Where You Predict What Will Happen, Not The Probability Of What Will Happen. And Putting Together The Probabilities Of Quantum Mechanics With The Certainty Of General Relativity, That's Been The Big Challenge And That's Why We Have Been Excited About String Theory, As It's One Of The Only Approaches That Can Put It Together.