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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "to break" here mean "to go to bankruptcy"?
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Glashow is an implacable opponent of superstrings, on both scientific and philosophical grounds, and says that he is 'waiting for the superstring to break'.
Glashow is an implacable opponent of superstrings, on both scientific and philosophical grounds, and says that he is 'waiting for the superstring to break'.
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I don't think so. I think it's a sort of joke. Strings (in the everyday sense) can break, and Glashow wants the superstrings to "break", which I think means that he wants the theory of superstrings to be proved wrong or discredited.
- I don't think so.
- I think it's a sort of joke.
- Strings (in the everyday sense) can break, and Glashow wants the superstrings to "break", which I think means that he wants the theory of superstrings to be proved wrong or discredited.
- That's my guess, anyway.
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I don't think so. I think it's a sort of joke. Strings (in the everyday sense) can break, and Glashow wants the superstrings to "break", which I think means that he wants the theory of superstrings to be proved wrong or discredited. That's my guess, anyway.
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Thanks.
Who would like to answer, because I failed to get the exactly meaning of "dotting a few 'i's and crossing a few 't's".
The letter i has a dot on the top. You dot a few 'i's - does it refer to you just complete a far lesser part of the task? Crossing a few 't's has conveyed the same meaning?
Context:
Glashow: "Can I begin by saying that a hundred years
Who would like to answer, because I failed to get the exactly meaning of "dotting a few 'i's and crossing a few 't's".
The letter i has a dot on the top. You dot a few 'i's - does it refer to you just complete a far lesser part of the task? Crossing a few 't's has conveyed the same meaning?
Context:
Glashow: "Can I begin by saying that a hundred years
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The whole phrase is a fixed expression. It means that you have almost finished something, and only have to do a few more minor things to complete it.
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