“(Jokingly) Sex in ten dimensions is impossible… topologically.”
Lecture "Cosmic landscape and illusion of intelligent design", DESY Hamburg (28 September, 2006).
Ле́онард Са́сскинд — американский физик-теоретик, один из создателей теории струн, преподающий сейчас в Стэнфордском университете.
“(Jokingly) Sex in ten dimensions is impossible… topologically.”
Lecture "Cosmic landscape and illusion of intelligent design", DESY Hamburg (28 September, 2006).
General Relativity Lecture 5, YouTube, published 30 October 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWN1V9jOf0 (quote at 1:21:46 of 1:39:06)
[1984, The gauge hierarchy problem, technicolor, supersymmetry, and all that, Physics Reports, 104, 2–4, 181–193, 10.1016/0370-1573(84)90208-4]
[The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, 2008, Little, Brown, https://books.google.com/books?id=RIW9E1sOyxUC&q=epitome#v=snippet&q=epitome&f=false]
Источник: During an interview with Y Combinator - Published on Dec 6, 2018.