Phymaths podcast # 36 || Dr. Thomas Van Riet
from Phymaths podcast Hosted by Hassaan Saleem
Thomas Van Riet is a theoretical physicist at KU Leuven, Belgium who works on problems in string theory and quantum gravity in general. The list of Dr. Riet's works can be found below. Some links 1) Dr. Riet's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ThomasVanRiet2 2) Dr. Riet's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1024898?ui-citation-summary=true Contact Info My website: hassaansaleem.com Follow on Instagram: @hassaan.3142 Follow on Twitter: @Hassaan_PHY Email Queries: [email protected] Time stamps (0:00) Coming Up (0:26) Intro (0:40) Introduction of the guest (1:08) Getting deSitter spacetime from string theory (7:21) String theorists and phenomenology (10:24) Addressing criticisms of String Theory (18:30) Swampland program (20:33) Bad Criticisms of String Theory (29:28) Does this criticism affect the funding? (36:04) Problems with faculty positions (41:29) How to attack bad criticism of string theory? (47:11) Missing topics from popular science (50:40) Some great qualities of string theory (53:56) Are extra dimensions inevitable? (58:59) They aren't "dimensions". It is "central charge" (1:01:34) Understanding AdS landscape (1:12:31) String theory says "No tensor modes"? (1:16:20) Using generalized symmetries (1:19:14) Goodbye
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