By Johan (not verified) on 06 May 2015 #permalink "It’s not stealing if someone volunteers the infom that’s business 101. " Not if you're a big enough business. See retroactive copyright extension for an example. By Wow (not verified) on 06 May 2015 #permalink "Isn’t a string just a different illustration of particle-wave duality?" Yes. It's as much a model as particle or wave (or their duality) is. By Wow (not verified) on 06 May 2015 #permalink Hmmm the live blog keeps it polite and it sounds like the lecture was interesting in its own right (i.e., for what it covered, ignoring what it didn't cover). But the lecture seems to have failed to describe its implied subject: how observations of black holes might reveal the string theory 'legos.'