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Is String Theory About to Unravel?
smithsonianmag.com ^
| Brian Greene
Posted on 12/22/2014 7:40:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Well, Dr. Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory has given up his research on string theory so that is probably the reason why it’s falling apart....
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:30:41 AM PST
by
arthurus
To: BenLurkin
But the mathematics are so compelling. General Relativity and quantum theory unified. If only we could test it.
I’m sticking.
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:35:40 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: blueunicorn6
Do the cats belong to Schrodinger?
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:36:27 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: CrazyIvan
All your cats are belong to Shr..... never mind
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:37:15 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: CrazyIvan
Do the cats belong to Schrodinger? Until you look at them, they do and do not at the same time.
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12/22/2014 8:40:11 AM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
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12/22/2014 8:42:43 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Gritty-Kitty
You need to “string” yourself up for that joke.
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:45:08 AM PST
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mdmathis6
("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
To: Gritty-Kitty
You need to “string” yourself up for that joke.
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12/22/2014 8:45:28 AM PST
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mdmathis6
("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
To: CrazyIvan
Our cat was in a box. I thought she was dead. I went to pick her up. She was just sleeping. I’ll bet Schrodinger never had to have twelve stitches.
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:46:08 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Sgt_Schultze
So a theory named after what the science has been doing to tax payers...in other words: the practice of “stringing us” along!
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:49:30 AM PST
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mdmathis6
("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:52:48 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
Terence McKenna on the Big Bang Theory:
“Give us one free miracle and we can then go from there...”
Another McKenna quote:
“Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose”
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12/22/2014 8:55:29 AM PST
by
cgbg
(HLM--"Democracy is the theory that people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.")
To: Beowulf9
In physics, it’s worse to be unprovable than it is to be wrong.
To: BenLurkin
I knew it when Sheldon Cooper gave up on string theory, he realized he has been wasting his time working on it for 20 years
To: BenLurkin
Thomas Kuhn, who was both a physicist as well as explainer of the sociological/cultural notion
paradigm, would almost certainly better explain what is happening to the physics community better than any of the physicists themselves can. String theory is just the current paradigm or, presently-prevailing dogma from which scientists diverge at the risk of being labeled as either
eccentrics, or
heretics. Advocates of the String Theory paradigm justify the rigidity of their adherence to it by saying that: "It (String Theory) makes the math (unifying Quantum and Relativity Theories) work." However, all that these highly-educated folks really mean by this argument that they like String Theory because it supports what they fundamentally believe in the first place: That Quantum Theory and the Theory of Relativity
can be unified. As a result, these theoretical physicists are ever-trembling on the verge of committing a very fundamental fallacy in logic: Circular Reasoning, or Begging the Question, which involves the error of assuming the conclusion of your reasoning as its first premise.
Now, anyone can prove anything by assuming their desired conclusion as a premise, or logical starting-point; however, the obvious circularity of said reasoning has a way rendering it less than compelling to anyone but, perhaps, the speaker. It has long been my suspicion that the advocates of String Theory have been perfectly aware of this particular deficit in their reasoning. But like the Naked Emperor, these theorists rely on an army of obsequious courtiers, AKA their fellow physicists, to help maintain the pretense that String Theorists are not factually naked in their reasoning, and thereby are not shivering in the winds of absurdity.
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12/22/2014 11:06:36 AM PST
by
Trentamj
To: BenLurkin
I am soooo strung out on this theory. Lets talk about something with real gravitas, like General Relativity...
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posted on
12/22/2014 11:13:40 AM PST
by
navyguy
(The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
To: navyguy
Lets talk about something with real gravitas, like General Relativity... We could discuss Schrodinger. Or not. You won't know which until you click on the thread.
To: BenLurkin
I absolutely LOVE threads like this.
I have no idea what is being discussed.
Keeps me humble.
.
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posted on
12/22/2014 11:20:03 AM PST
by
Mears
To: BenLurkin
String theory was retarded from the beginning. It was a child-like fantasy based on little evidence. Might was well believed in a comic book character.
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12/22/2014 11:30:18 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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