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Eugenio Calabi (University of Pennsylvania), interview with author, October 18, 2007.
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Woody Allen, “Strung Out,” New Yorker, July 28, 2003.
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Liam McAllister (Cornell University), e-mail letter to author, April 24, 2009.
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Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, August 10, 2007.
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Joe Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, January 29, 2007.
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Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 372.
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P. Candelas, G. Horowitz, A. Strominger, and E. Witten, “Vacuum Configurations for Superstrings,” Nuclear Physics В 258 (1985): 46–74.
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Edward Witten (IAS), e-mail letter to author, July 24, 2008.
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Volker Braun, Philip Candelas, and Rhys Davies, “A Three-Generation Calabi-Yau Manifold with Small Hodge Numbers,” October 28, 2009, .
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Dennis Overbye, “One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers,” New York Times, September 2, 2003.
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Dale Glabach and Juan Maldacena, “Who’s Counting?” Astronomy, May 2006, p. 72.
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Andrew Strominger, “String Theory, Black Holes, and the Fundamental Laws of Nature,” lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 2007.
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Edward Witten (IAS), e-mail letter to author, July 21, 2008.
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Petr Horava (University of California, Berkeley), interview with author, July 6, 2007.
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Ibid.
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Аллюзия на цитату из поэмы Томаса Стернза Элиота «Полые люди»: «Не взрыв, но всхлип». — Примеч. перев.
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Ronen Plesser (Duke University), interview with author, September 3, 2008.
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Ibid.
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Marcus Grisaru (McGill University), interview with author, August 18, 2008.
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Plesser, interview with author, September 3, 2008.
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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), interview with author, August 19, 2008.
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Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute), interview with author, August 22, 2008.
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Jacques Distler and Brian Greene, “Some Exact Results on the Superpotential from Calabi-Yau Compactifications,” Nuclear Physics В 309 (1988): 295–316.
