And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.
The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
