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  3. From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes)
  4. Subject: Re: Super-Strings
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.030020.26105@nuscc.nus.sg>
  6. Organization: National University of Singapore
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  9. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:00:20 GMT
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  12. baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
  13. : 
  14. : Yes, people have studied "p-branes," but they are supposedly much less
  15. : well-behaved; when you quantize them they give infinities that people
  16. : apparently have not been able to renormalize away.  
  17. : 
  18. One problem with 2-branes is that at some point you need to know whether
  19. the Poincare conjecture is true. I recall reading the following amusing
  20. exchange:                                  
  21. Q: How are you going to proceed without the Poincare conjecture?          
  22. A: Well, if I were Ed Witten I'd turn that around, and give you a
  23. brane-theoretic proof of the Poincare conjecture..........[laughter].
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