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Now, this is, again, a sort of
a very genuine, physical poem.

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I have my weakness.

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As a biologist I
have my weakness

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for the most exact,
hard sciences.

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Therefore, I was so moved by
having the possibility to see

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the Kitt Peak observatories
where they just

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have observed something
which proved the string

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theory of the universe.

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And, so, here studying
Scientific American,

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I used a few legitimate
scientific terms

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as Kaluza's theory and
11-dimensional supergravity.

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So it's not my metaphors.

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I read it.

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They must know.

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And, actually, it's a
dialogue with a little kid--

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with my little kid.

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"Spacetime."

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"When I grow up and
you get small, then--

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in Kaluza's theory,
the fifth dimension

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is represented as
a circle associated

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with every point in spacetime--

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then when I die, I will
never be alive again?

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Never.

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Never never?

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Never never?

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Yes, but never never never?

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No, not never never never.

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Just never never.

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So we made a small
family contribution

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to the quantum problem of
11-dimensional supergravity.

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