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This week’s Time magazine has as article by Michael Lemonick about the controversy over string theory entitled The Unraveling of String Theory. It mentions my book and Lee Smolin’s, and there’s a quote from Sean Caroll. There’s the usual hysterical reaction from Lubos Motl: Time Magazine: Physics is a Sin.
Lemonick more or less gets the story right, describing the reaction of string theory critics to the landscape as:
It was bad enough, they say, when string theorists treated nonbelievers as though they were a little slow-witted. Now, it seems, at least some superstring advocates are ready to abandon the essential definition of science itself on the basis that string theory is too important to be hampered by old-fashioned notions of experimental proof.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
[Crackpot link removed - Zz]
Are we allowed to criticize string theory here, or is free thought forbidden? [Don't be a smart ass, because I can be one too and ask you if you know how to read and comprehend the PF Guidelines that you have explicitly agreed to - Zz]
This week’s Time magazine has as article by Michael Lemonick about the controversy over string theory entitled The Unraveling of String Theory. It mentions my book and Lee Smolin’s, and there’s a quote from Sean Caroll. There’s the usual hysterical reaction from Lubos Motl: Time Magazine: Physics is a Sin.
Lemonick more or less gets the story right, describing the reaction of string theory critics to the landscape as:
It was bad enough, they say, when string theorists treated nonbelievers as though they were a little slow-witted. Now, it seems, at least some superstring advocates are ready to abandon the essential definition of science itself on the basis that string theory is too important to be hampered by old-fashioned notions of experimental proof.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
[Crackpot link removed - Zz]
Are we allowed to criticize string theory here, or is free thought forbidden? [Don't be a smart ass, because I can be one too and ask you if you know how to read and comprehend the PF Guidelines that you have explicitly agreed to - Zz]
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