Nima Arkani-Hamed - What's Fundamental in the Cosmos?

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Dig down to the deepest level of reality, the smallest things that exist, the building blocks of everything else. What do we find? What’s there at the very bottom? That’s what’s ‘fundamental’. Everything else is derivative, built up from the bottom. So what’s there at the bottom? So what’s fundamental?

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Nima Arkani-Hamed is a Canadian/American theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology. Formerly a professor at Harvard, Arkani-Hamed is now on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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