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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: jeremyp on January 27, 2023, 01:19:41 PM

Title: String Theory might be dead
Post by: jeremyp on January 27, 2023, 01:19:41 PM
This should please Vlad

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/requiem-for-a-string-charting-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-theory-of-everything

It discusses the reasons why String Theory isn't a theory (despite the name) and why very few people are working with it anymore.
Title: Re: String Theory might be dead
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on January 27, 2023, 05:51:41 PM
This should please Vlad

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/requiem-for-a-string-charting-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-theory-of-everything
I confess I did smile when I saw the name  ''arstechnica''. I shall read the article with great interest.
Title: Re: String Theory might be dead
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on January 28, 2023, 10:23:44 AM
Have we been spared ''The String Bomb''?
Title: Re: String Theory might be dead
Post by: Dicky Underpants on February 07, 2023, 04:39:43 PM
This should please Vlad

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/requiem-for-a-string-charting-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-theory-of-everything

It discusses the reasons why String Theory isn't a theory (despite the name) and why very few people are working with it anymore.

Sriram will not be amused. It will take me some time to digest that lot. Btw, why didn't they all call it "String Hypothesis" from the start? Surely scientists knew it wasn't a true theory, in the scientific sense, however much it seemed to unify all the disparate universal theories around (Planck, Einstein etc)?
Title: Re: String Theory might be dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 07, 2023, 04:52:56 PM
Sriram will not be amused. It will take me some time to digest that lot. Btw, why didn't they all call it "String Hypothesis" from the start? Surely scientists knew it wasn't a true theory, in the scientific sense, however much it seemed to unify all the disparate universal theories around (Planck, Einstein etc)?
Scientists need money and suffer from self regard.
Title: Re: String Theory might be dead
Post by: Sriram on February 08, 2023, 04:34:23 AM


It could be having an NDE....! 

If not, it is unfortunate. The idea of a fundamental foundation to this complex universe is quite appealing. It echos the idea of a Universal consciousness as the  substratum.