What Marcus du Sautoy thinks about physics

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Mathematician; Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and author of The Music of the Primes and The Creativity Code.

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1. 1 Jun 2013

   Our readingA correct unifying theory of physics would, on first appearing publicly, look statistically likely to be wrong.

   Their wordsHowever, a little thought reveals that whenever a final theory is at last found, it will first begin its public life with an overwhelming statistical likelihood of failure.

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