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String Theory, at 20, Explains It All (or Not)

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[escapefromboston]

I prefer the String cheese theory.

Anyway I'll have to read this later

[beezdotcom]

the string theorists admitted that after 20 years, they still did not know how to test string theory

I happen to think string theory shows great promise - but it is this admission which, so far, makes it tantamount to religion. Here's hoping they find a way to test it.

[beezdotcom]

the string theorists admitted that after 20 years, they still did not know how to test string theory

I happen to think string theory shows great promise - but it is this admission which, so far, makes it tantamount to religion. Here's hoping they find a way to test it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The famous one-sided bottle....

[PoorMuttly]

Hey...this article didn't help Muttly at all.

What does it have to do with his Yo-Yo ?!!

Well...maybe something...may have too many dimensions in there or something.

When do we eat.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From top, Rick Friedman; Laura Pedrick; Emilio Flores, all for The New York Times

Scientists around the country leading the study of string theory include Dr. Andrew Strominger and Dr. Cumrun Vafa, photo at top; Dr. Edward Witten, middle; and Dr. Joe Polchinski, above.

[maestro]

Einstein was tutored.........he read Bible (Jesus) truth and rejected blood redemption...

But,.......accepted the 'relativism' of light to creation concept in the bible.

.......NEVER giving God and His Bible Truth credit!

(....stringing Darwin along....)

/sarcasm?

(Romans 10:17)

......the demons believe (too) and tremble (too).....

[Southack]

"They all laughed 20 years ago. It was then that a physicist named John Schwarz jumped up on the stage during a cabaret at the physics center here and began babbling about having discovered a theory that could explain everything."

We're still laughing; here's why:

String Theory attempts to imagine a universe in which *both* Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are valid.

The problem with such a fantasy, however, is that QM and GR are mututally exclusive theories. They fundamentally contradict each other on rather large areas such as universal Gravity, etc.

What has happened is that we have two theories, QM and GR, that our modern, effeminate, politically correct scientists can't choose between. One theory is correct, the other is not.

But no one wants to say that one of those theories is wrong.

So rather than make the hard choice, today's limp-wristed researchers are wasting enormous amounts of time and money pursuing a String Theory that somehow makes both QM and GR valid.

...And that's why we're laughing. Unifying GR with QM is not feasible. The two theories contradict each other. Yet on go the Strong Theory adherents, unwilling to say that one King (either GR or QM) has no clothes...even if it means publishing ridiculous nonsense about String Theories.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Physics ping.

[RightWhale]

NYT still has the disinterested ability to get a story more or less right.

[Junior]

If true, it could be used like a searchlight to illuminate some of the deepest mysteries physicists can imagine, like the origin of space and time in the Big Bang and the putative death of space and time at the infinitely dense centers of black holes.

Majikthise: I mean, what's the use of our sitting around half the night arguing about whether there may...

Vroomfondel: Or may not.

Majikthise: - be a God, if this machine only goes and gives you his phone number in the morning?

[Francis McClobber]

"A day without string is chaos."

Rudolph Smuntz

[mikrofon]

May the Schwarz be with you!

[Semper]

The lesson, he said, may be that time and space are only illusions or approximations, emerging somehow from something more primitive and fundamental about nature...

I like this. It allows for the view that the fundamental reality and nature of existence is that it is spiritual. This material, mortal, earthly perception of existence is an illusion and when we allow the influence of spiritual reality to come into our experience (the reality that Jesus Christ demonstrated - overcoming every human problem and limitation) we realize our true nature and existence as spiritual "children of God" - spiritual offspring of a spiritual Source.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks for posting this. Lubos Motl at Harvard has written about this article at his blog http://motls.blogspot.com/

Lubos regularly writes comments on String theory, but politics as well, he is a conservative (Sic!)

[SunkenCiv]

[LiteKeeper]

YEC - INTREP

[SunkenCiv]

Is String Theory Even Wrong?
by Peter Woit
American Scientist
March-April 2002

It is best described by Wolfgang Pauli's famous phrase, "It's not even wrong." String theory not only makes no predictions about physical phenomena at experimentally accessible energies, it makes no precise predictions whatsoever. Even if someone were to figure out tomorrow how to build an accelerator capable of reaching the astronomically high energies at which particles are no longer supposed to appear as points, string theorists would be able to do no better than give qualitative guesses about what such a machine might show. At the moment string theory cannot be falsified by any conceivable experimental result... With such a dramatic lack of experimental support, string theorists often attempt to make an aesthetic argument, professing that the theory is strikingly "elegant" or "beautiful."

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