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It's beyond my depth but I saw a recent paper Strings from almost nothing that sounds interesting to me. If this has been discussed previously on this forum I apologize.
 
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Paul Colby said:
If this has been discussed previously on this forum I apologize.
A search on the arxiv number of the paper didn't turn up any other threads here on PF. So I think we're good.
 
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