[InterceptPoint]

It suggests that we are on the verge of understanding a new state of matter using a string-theory description,"

Good language for a short proposal to obtain more grant funds for your favorite scientific pursuit. Tie your project to String Theory and the money flows. Propose something actually practical and it's a no-go. That is the state of science today. String theory is a pretty mathematics and poor science. But worse, it has become, like Global Warming, a new religion. IMHO it is well past the time when String Theory needed to be either proven or abandoned.

[grey_whiskers]

That's a new bumper sticker / T-shirt if I ever saw one.

"String theory causes climate change."

Cheers!

[tlb]

>>>Good language for a short proposal to obtain more grant funds

The ultimate, inescapable, and inevitable booogeyman someone throws into nearly all FR science threads. “Grants”.

I guess that which must be paid for is invalid. Just because.