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Humans evolved brains to argue about who gets what. They argue economics in an attempt to alter public opinion in their favour. This applies to physics far less.

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What would happen if a Fields medalist mathematician set up in the street?He would be ignored.

Why? Because math is hard, and doesn't pander to the "layman".

Take out the contributions of mathematicians and neither physics nor economics would have much left but talk.

" They aren't called branes, they are called submanifolds--and we in differential geometry have been exploring their properties for more than a century."

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