String Theory might be dead

[jeremyp]

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.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Have we been spared ''The String Bomb''?

[Dicky Underpants]

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)?

[Nearly Sane]

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.

[Sriram]

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.