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Adrian Cho, “String Theory Gets Real — Sort Of,” Science 306 (November 26, 2004): 1,461.
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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.
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Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, November 15, 2008.
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Gary Shiu, quoted in Adrian Cho, “String Theory Gets Real — Sort Of” Science 306 (November 26, 2004): 1,461.
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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), e-mail letter to author, December 6, 2008.
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Shamit Kachru, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Sandip Trivedi, “De Sitter Vacua in String Theory,” Physical Review D 68 (2003).
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Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins University), interview with author, February 22, 2007.
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Liam McAllister (Cornell University), interview with author, November 12, 2008.
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Kachru, interview with author, September 8, 2007.
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Liam McAllister (Princeton University), interview with author, February 20, 2007.
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Joe Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, February 6, 2006.
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David Gross, quoted in Dennis Overbye, “Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky?” New York Times, October 28, 2003.
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Burton Richter, “Randall and Susskind,” letter to editor, New York Times, January 29, 2006.
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Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape (New York: Little Brown, 2006), pp. 354–355.
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Tristan Hubsch (Howard University), interview with author, November 7, 2008.
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Mark Gross (Stanford University), interview with author, October 31, 2008.
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Gross, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Miles Reid (University of Warwick), interview with author, August 12, 2007.
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Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, October 31, 2008.
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Gross, interview with author, October 31, 2008.
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Adams, interview with author, October 31, 2008.
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Tristan Hubsch, e-mail letter to author, December 15, 2008.
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Melanie Becker (Texas A&M University), interview with author, February 1, 2007.
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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.
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Li-Sheng Tseng (Harvard University), interview with author, December 17, 2008.
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Becker, interview with author, February 1, 2007.
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Polchinski, interview with author, January 29, 2007.
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Strominger, interview with author, August 1, 2007.
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Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania), interview with author, February 2, 2007.
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Geoffrey Landis, “Vacuum States,” Asimov's Science Fiction 12 (July 1988): 73–79.
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Andrew R. Frey, Matthew Lippert, and Brook Williams, “The Fall of Stringy de Sitter,” Physical Review D. 68 (2003).
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Sidney Coleman, “Fate of the False Vacuum: Semi-classical Theory,” Physical Review D. 15 (May 15, 1977): 2,929-2,936.
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Steve Giddings (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, September 24, 2007.
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Matthew Kleban (New York University), interview with author, January 17, 2008.
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Dennis Overbye, “One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers,” New York Times, September 2, 2003.
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Andrei Linde (Stanford University), interview with author, December 27, 2007.
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Giddings, interview with author, October 17, 2007.
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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), interview with author, September 18, 2007.
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Linde, interview with author, December 27, 2007.
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Henry Tye (Cornell University), interview with author, September 12, 2007.
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Linde, interview with author, January 10, 2008.
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S. W. Hawking, “The Cosmological Constant,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 310 (1983): 303–310.
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Kleban, interview with author, January 17, 2008.
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Steven B. Giddings, “The Fate of Four Dimensions,” Physical Review D. 68 (2003).
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Geoffrey Landis, “Vacuum States,” Asimov's Science Fiction 12 (July 1988): 73–79.
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Andrew R. Frey, Matthew Lippert, and Brook Williams, “The Fall of Stringy de Sitter,” Physical Review D. 68(2003).
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Sidney Coleman, “Fate of the False Vacuum: Semi-classical Theory,” Physical Review D. 15 (May 15, 1977): 2,929-2,936.
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Steve Giddings (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, September 24, 2007.
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Matthew Kleban (New York University), interview with author, January 17, 2008.
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Dennis Overbye, “One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers,” New York Times, September 2, 2003.
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Andrei Linde (Stanford University), interview with author, December 27, 2007.
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Giddings, interview with author, October 17, 2007.
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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), interview with author, September 18, 2007.
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Linde, interview with author, December 27, 2007.
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Henry Tye (Cornell University), interview with author, September 12, 2007.
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Linde, interview with author, January 10,2008.
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S. W. Hawking, “The Cosmological Constant,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 310 (1983): 303–310.
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Kleban, interview with author, January 17, 2008.
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Steven B. Giddings, “The Fate of Four Dimensions,” Physical Review D. 68 (2003).
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Peter Goddard, ed., Paul Dirac: The Man and His Work (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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Eugene Wigner, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,” Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 (February 1960).
