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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).

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Chen Ning Yang, S. S. Chem: A Great Geometer of the 20th Century (Boston: International Press, 1998), p. 66.

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Robert Osserman, Poetry of the Universe (New York: Anchor Books, 1996), pp. 142–143.

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Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (New York: Modern Library, 1994), p. 50.

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Michael Atiyah, quoted in Patricia Schwarz, “Sir Michael Atiyah on Math, Physics and Fun,” The Official String Theory Web site, http://www.superstringtheory.com/people/atiyah.html.

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Jim Holt, “Unstrung,” New Yorker, October 2, 2006, p. 86.

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Michael Atiyah, “Pulling the Strings,” Nature 438 (December 22–29, 2005): 1,081.

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Robert Mills, “Beauty and Truth,” in Chen Ning Yang: A Great Physicist of the 20th Century, ed. Shing-Tung Yau and C. S. Liu (Boston: International Press, 1995), p. 199.

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Henry Tye (Cornell University), e-mail letter to author, December 19, 2008.

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Brian Greene, interview by Ira Flatow, “Big Questions in Cosmology,” Science Friday, NPR, April 3, 2009.

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К. C. Cole, “A Theory of Everything,” New York Times Magazine, October 18, 1987.

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Nicolai Reshetikhin (University of California, Berkeley), interview with author, June 5, 2008.

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Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam), interview with author, February 8, 2007.

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Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), p. 210.

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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, August 1, 2007.

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S. Ramanujan, “On Certain Arithmetic Functions,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 22 (1916): 159–184.

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