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Swampland vs landscape definition
Effective theories that look consistent on their own but cannot be completed into a full quantum gravity (string) theory belong to the 'swampland', while those that can be completed belong to the 'landscape'; the swampland program proceeds by identifying which theories are bad, since the consistent ones are a measure-zero set that is hard to characterize directly.
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“a putative theory, which could have been okay with gravity, but it's not, we say this belongs to the swampland. The ones for which actually can be completed to a complete theory of gravity, we call landscape.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:07:45 AM
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