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James Sparks (Harvard University), interview with author, February 6, 2007.

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Amanda Gefter, “The Elephant and the Event Horizon,” New Scientist (October 26,2006): 36–39.

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John Preskill, “On Hawking’s Concession,” July 24, 2004, http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/jp_24jul04.html.

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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.

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Juan Maldacena, “The Illusion of Gravity,” Scientific American, November 2005, pp. 57–58, 61.

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Davide Castelvecchi, “Shadow World,” Science News 172 (November 17,2007).

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Taubes, “Black Holes and Beyond.”

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L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2004), p. 111.

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Volker Braun (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), interview with author, November 4, 2008.

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Philip Candelas (Oxford University), interview with author, December 1, 2008.

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Ibid.

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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.

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Cumrun Vafa, “The Geometry of Grand Unified Theories,” lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 2008.

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Chris Beasley (Stony Brook University), interview with author, November 13, 2008.

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Burt Оvrut (University of Pennsylvania), interview with author, July 20, 2008.

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Ovrut, interview with author, February 2, 2007.

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Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania), interview with author, November 14, 2008.

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Donagi, interview with author, November 19, 2008.

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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.

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Donagi, interview with author, May 3, 2008

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Ovrut, interview with author, November 20, 2008.

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Donagi, interview with author, November 20, 2008.

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Ovrut, interview with author, November 20, 2008.

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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), interview with author, November 4, 2008.

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Michael Douglas (Stony Brook University), interview with author, August 20, 2008.

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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.

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Simon Donaldson (Imperial College), interview with author, November 29, 2008.

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Ovrut, interview with author, November 19, 2008.

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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.

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Strominger, interview with author, February 7, 2007.

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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 AM 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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