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Harvard. she has a new book called "knocking on heaven's door: how physics and scientific thinking illuminate the universe and the modern world." she joins me now. thank you for coming. ? thank you for having me here. >> what is going on in science and physics that excites you? how are we going to explain to the world or the universe in different ways? >> well, right now i'm very excited because this is the era of experiments, even if the experiment is in europe. i don't care of there's an experiment going on. it's going to tell us very fundamental things about the underlying nature of matter....

Market? >> nobody wants a world in which the government will decide what you eat, that's not a -- that's not going to prevent people from eating fat food. there's a balance. there's a balance between freedom, which everybody wants to protect, and you know, the need of individuals to be in some cases helped, make decisions that they will want to have made. i mean it's not that you are forcing people into things they don't want. and in the case of saving, most people want to save more than they do. and they are grateful when you help them save more than they do. that's a balance that they're see...

East now, very old. if he were to die, would you have a new supreme leader or would that call into question the whole system? >> that would be a mess, in my opinion. you do. you have rural constituencies versus clerical constituencies. i'm not going to call that one. >> daniel, iran. anything? >> what's been painted is a benign scenario. the worst is avoided, the real showdown. if ahmadinejad were to go one way or another, that would obviously be a good thing as far as the west is concerned. my fear is it might not turn out quite as benign as that. at the very least i think and hope you're rig...

Out -- attempt to take out the nuclear program. >> anne marie, one of the things i've heard in washington is there are a lot of people in washington who feel that the israeli belligerence is an effort to play us rather than a signal they are about to strike iran. do you think that's right? they are trying to say to us, look, we're getting really serious so unless you guys in washington do more, we might strike? >> i do, but i don't think it's working. i think everybody knows where everybody else is in the game. i agree with ian, i don't think there will be a strike. we'll just go ahead as we'v...

Dramatic way, perhaps not the way i thought. there will be various complex mechanisms that will involve european central bank, some kind of bond insurance. i remain convinced germany will not let europe fall apart. if things get too dangerous germany will write the checks. it's trying to get the best deal it can, the most reforms from countries like greece and italy before it does write the checks. as for america, i'm still bullish. i think the american economy continues to have great strengths, consumers have rebuilt balance sheets somewhat, savings rate from 0% to 3%. corporations are flush ...