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Hello Dr. Greene and thanks for doing this AMA. I don’t have a question, I just want to tell you that in 2002 I was in a very rough place in my life and had entered a recovery program that encouraged me to find a belief in a power greater than myself. I’d been raised Catholic and had come to disagree with the teachings of the church but I had begun to think that maybe I should go back to Catholicism just to have some kind of higher power to believe in.

Then one day I got an email from my college’s alumni association announcing that you were giving a lecture on string theory and it was open to the public, so I decided to go instead of going to a meeting. That night I heard you talk about the possibility of the universe being made up of all these tiny vibrating strings, and how one reason the big bang theory can’t be proven is because, if I remember your analogy correctly, if you think of the universe as a film strip on a projector and you take that film off and look at each frame, the film breaks down and disintegrates before you can see the origin of the universe. In that moment, I understood what it meant to feel like there are powers way greater than myself in the universe, and that there are things going on all around us that I have absolutely no control over. It was the spiritual awakening I needed and was looking for. It helped me tremendously at a time when I really needed it. I’ve always wanted to tell you that. Thank you for everything you do.

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Just to chime in on this, the podcast will continue, possibly with a new cohost down the road but that hasn't been decided yet. We'll hopefully record a new episode next week.

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