8.5 Part 2

Santhosh begins this episode with a discussion about transverse field Ising chains and dualities, anyon algebras, and systems with known spectra but unknown states. Amartya then talks about the relation between the emergence proposal in EFTs and the weak gravity conjecture, the graviton forward pole, and string theory motivated regge-behavior of amplitudes. Chetan then rambles about the limitations of string theoretic models, SIMPs, and Strominger's work on asymptotic symmetries.