[ckilmer]

I hear people say something happened in the 1970’s that threw everyone off the scent.

Do you have any theories on that? what happened? If anything?

[Leaning Right]

> I hear people say something happened in the 1970’s that threw everyone off the scent. <

You might be referring to String Theory, a proposed theory that would connect Schrödinger’s Quantum Mechanics with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. String Theory was very popular in the 1970’s. It is still a big deal today.

String Theory was once so popular that if you did not buy into it, you couldn’t obtain a physics position at a major university. You had to be a believer.

I never had much interest in String Theory for two reasons. One, my goal was never a university position. And two, I’m a lab kind of guy. There is no hard experimental evidence for String Theory. None. And one school of thought is that there can never be such evidence.

I found that to be odd, to say the least. But maybe I just don’t have the right mind for theoretical work.

[GOPJ]

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