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Each generation benefits from the insights and discoveries of those who came before. “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants,” wrote Isaac Newton. In a new annual series, World Science Festival audiences are invited to stand on the shoulders of modern-day giants. “Why do you think that the right theory will be a simple one?” Physicist Steven Weinberg takes a question from the audience regarding the search for a theory that could describe the workings of everything.
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Recorded June 2011; Posted December 2011