0:00:00.5 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Those of you who were old enough, are old enough to have been paying attention to physics blogs and magazines and books in the early part of the 21st century, in the 2000s, might remember the string wars, there was a slightly public debate about the status of string theory. One of the most popular ways of trying to get a quantum theory of gravity. String theory was born in the late '60s, ear...