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Alan Guth (MIT), interview with author, September 13, 2007.
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Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), p. 261.
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Max Tegmark (MIT), interview with author, October 23, 2007.
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Faye Flam, “Getting Comfortable in Four Dimensions,” Science 266 (December 9, 1994): 1, 640.
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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, January 19, 2007.
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Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam), interview with author, February 8, 2007.
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David Morrison (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, May 27, 2008.
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Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, May 23, 2008.
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Joe Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, August 31, 2007.
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Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study), e-mail letter to author, January 30, 2007.
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