Editing Chirality (section)

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|content=@olivia_p_walker This? Chanda is a long time colleague &amp; acquaintance from years back. We have disagreed before, but have never had harsh words that I recall. We both come from progressive family backgrounds so there is commonality. I think we disagree markedly on DEI as it is current conceived.
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|content=@IBJIYONGI I would also be happy to debate you on DEI. I think we can both agree we don't want to do damage to the field. And I am worried that you may NOT be speaking out for many marginalized voices who are intimidated by this relentlessly invidious rhetoric in science.
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|content=Wow! Holy smokes.

I think I understand this proposition. And I accept! 

And I'm happy to do an extra talk on EDI for FREE. My complexion is fair.
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|content=But I am hearing from some terrific researchers that they are SCARED in their workplaces to talk science now for fear of being targeted by science activists. And it has me concerned. We can't let Black physicists be intimidated by politics! Let me know? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/us/james-webb-telescope-gay-rights.html
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|content=In any event, I'd be most interested to talk on the following two topics: 

3 Generations of fundamental [[Chirality|Chiral Fermions]] vs 2 Fundamental Families + 1 Emergent non-chiral SM Gen plus two exotic families which become emergently [[Chirality|Chiral]].

Pati-Salam &amp; GR: What is the linkage?
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|content=And remember, you can't get mad. We outsiders are HYPER-marginalized &amp; I'm accepting extra work that you find oppressive &amp; wont do. I'm EXACTLY following what I understand of your tweet and proposition. My concern is also attracting &amp; retaining top talent from all pools. 🙏
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|content=For those of you saying you are blocked, here is the tweet I am to which I am responding so I don’t misrepresent Chanda’s position:
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|content=It is time to face up to the disaster of string theory. But we need to be fair about what failed and why. The equations of string theory can’t hurt anyone. It’s 40 years of the anti-scientific destruction of scientific standards and norms of collegiality to promote one failed theory over all other attempts that is behind this destruction of what was previously the worlds most accomplished scientific community.

It’s time to face up to what actually happened 40 years ago. And it ain’t pretty. 🙏
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|content=The good folks at @IAI_TV put together a reel of String Theorist, Prof. @bgreene and I debating String Theory in Wales in May at @HTLGIFestival. 

Check it out: 

https://t.co/x71oDgi1OK
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|content=This should really be done at a somewhat more technical level. The biggest damage done by String Theory was that it quickly redefined the most important problems in Physics to be general aspects of analysis and field theory rather than understanding our *hyper*-specific world.
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|content=Oddly, even though Roger Penrose and I were on the same side on this stage, I couldn’t subscribe to much of Penrose’s critique of strings and found myself agreeing more with Brian Greene on the technical points.
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|content=So, now in the current post-string era, it is perfectly acceptable for people to work on “Quantum Gravity” without having to understand essentially anything about the mysterious 3 generations of chiral particles that actually populate our world. In short, they changed the field.
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|content=To sum it up: when string theorist are no longer in a position to keep changing the goal posts set by the physical world, isn’t it the case that from A-Z maybe string theory is not being honest?

Again. Not personal to you. At all. But it is not a fair move to say “It’s the best yet-to-succeed approach to quantum gravity.” in front of the public. No? 

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|content=“String Theory is absolutely…the most likely to be true set of ideas about what sits at the intersection of the Standard Model and quantum gravity.”
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|content=@JosephPConlon If you said “electrons are absolutely fractional spin fields in the standard model” I wouldn’t disagree with that statement. It isn’t at all about what you think. It is a true statement.

Here you are assuring lay people about what is absolute about String Theory within physics.
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|content=“IMO objectively true”

As with so many of these String Theoretic claims I have no idea what that means.

So for example if I make an argument that this is NOT objectively true, do you fall back on the idea that it was opinion?

“Objectively, Electrons are field theoretic at observed energy scales.” My opinion doesn’t enter into it. The claim that it is objectively true eliminates the role of opinion. 

Does that mean that all who disagree with you and your String community are “not serious” as per the above?
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|content=@nomissernothome @JosephPConlon I am so confused.
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|content=I don’t think that’s the issue Joseph. At all. 

Feynman, Glashow, Wilczek never found them objectively or absolutely compelling.

String theorists like Friedan have written harshly of the Failures.

And what you are saying about subjective opinion and absolute objective fact doesn’t make sense. I mean you can just see that, no? Not trying to be mean here. But I don’t see what you are claiming is absolute and objective beyond your opinion. 

What you seem to be saying is the usual trope: “The more you understand about the difficulty of quantizing a spin 2 gravitational field the more you appreciate how string theory has taught us so much about how it is to be done eventually, and that there is no remotely comparable framework for doing so!”

Again. Not trying to be combative. Feel free to correct me if I have this wrong.
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|content=It is not objective or absolutely true that String Theory is our best theory. In fact, it has become, 40 years after the anomaly cancelation, our most thoroughly explored idea. No other path has been picked over like this one.

Waited a few days. I don’t think you are making sense about your *opinion* that it is *objectively* and *absolutely* dominant. And that is the problem. String theorist deliberately leave others with the impression that they are following something scientific, objective and absolute. But it is really just a shared subjective hunch. And this does science and physics a terrible disservice.
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|content=@JosephPConlon Joseph. Imagine I were to temporarily stipulate to the idea that of all the known approaches to quantizing the  metric field that leads to gravitation, String Theory is by far the most advanced. I don’t think that is unreasonable whether or not it is true. It’s a solid argument.
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|content=@JosephPConlon I don’t think that is the relevant argument anymore. So you are framing it in such a way that “String Theory” is the answer to a question you formulated: “Of all the approaches to quantizing  gravity which haven’t worked, which is the best?”

My argument is with that framing.
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|content=The problem I have is with string theorists framing of the field and its issues and questions. I think String Theory is dangerous for this reason. 

Try these instead:

A) Which approach is most likely to successfully alter or explain the Standard model?

B) Same as A) but for General Relativity?
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|content=C) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why there are 3 generations of observed fermions?

D) Which approach is most likely to shed light on why the generations are chiral?

E) Which large community most regularly makes sweeping claims that it later must privately invalidate while publicly claiming a new revolution?

F) Which large community is most likely to ignore other ideas?

G) Which is the most aggressive large community despite no proven connection to observed reality?
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|content=H) Which community is most likely to spend all their careers working on toy models with the wrong dimensions, signatures or field content claiming that we are building up the toolkit?

I) Which community is least likely to own up to the disaster of past public declarations about accessible energy SUSY?
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|content=J) Which approach has been the most investigated and thus thoroughly picked over for low hanging fruit?

K) Which approach best explains the odd nature of a seemingly fundamental Higgs sector?

L) Which approach is most dogmatic that “Quantum Gravity” rather than “Unification” or “Gravitational Harmony” or “Incremental understanding” etc. *Is* the path forward when we don’t even know if gravity is quantized as we expect it at all in models beyond relativitistic QFT?
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|content=@JosephPConlon M) Which approach comes closest to explaining the origin of the internal symmetry structure group of the Standard model?

N) Which approach comes closest to explaining why there appear to be 16 particles in a generation with their observed internal quantum numbers?
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|content=@JosephPConlon O) Which approach is most at risk of invoking “The Landscape” of impossibly many theories to test after saying that the power of the approach was that there were only 5 possible theories?

P) Which community brags about “postdiction” the most because it has failed at predictions?
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|content=Q) Which community is least collegial and most insulting to colleagues outside the approach?

R) Which HEP theory community consumed the most in resources over the last 40 years?

S) Same for brains?

T) Same for producing PR and puff pieces?

U) Which community has broken the most trust with lay people in HEP theory?
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|content=V) Which community substitutes mathematics results for results about the actual physical world we live in when talking to the public?

W) Which community is most likely to restore the culture of successful physics research to HEP theory?

X) Which not yet successful approach has been most self-critical?

Y) Which community is most respectful in absorbing the results by others with proper credit?

Z) Which community relentless makes its argument by mis framing the question as if the question were simply “What is our deepest collection of ideas of how to quantize a massless spin 2 gravitational field?” when the previous 25 framings are all arguably more important after 39 years without contact with physics?
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|content=That is why this conversation doesn’t work. It is what magicians call “Magicians Choice”: the lay person is lead into thinking they are free to disagree. But the question you keep asking is DESiGNED to make it look like String Theory is our top community. 

Joseph: it failed in the terms it gave for taking over. It chose the terms. It said what it was and what it was going to do. And it flat out failed in EXACTLY those terms it chose when it said “Hold my beer!” back in 1984.
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|content=Who turned out to be right? 

Everyone who said “Wait: why are we changing the core mission to ‘Quantizing Gravity’?? Weren’t we supposed to explain the observed particle spectrum? And the weirdness of the Higgs sector as Deus Ex Machina? And the origin of chirality? Etc etc.”

Feynman/Glashow/Perl/Etc. 

It was a total switcheroo.
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|content=Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question…”.

We were there in 1984. And I was not alone at the time. There were *many* of us. Before this String Theory/ Quantum Gravity mind virus took over.

I don’t know what to call the behavior pattern where institutions look to someone who has *NOT* been making the important point for forever so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they got EVERYTHING WRONG for 4-7 decades in an obvious fashion.

You have to ask yourself “Who are the real cranks when those accused of being cranks turn out to be right?” And the leaders who accused them turn out to be wrong. Over and over. Again. And again. 

Glad to have the company however.
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|content=Sorry. By whom? Do I expect to be taken seriously by the many String Theorists who called their colleagues morons, frauds and “not serious” behind their backs? No. I don’t. 

I expect them to leave the field. Then we can get back to doing physics. The subset of reasonable string theorists who know this problem well and are still doing science? Well….They know ST/QG has a problem and they hate it too. And I do care about them. 

That isn’t a mind virus. The mind virus is specifically the tortured defense of string theory and quantum gravity by attacking colleagues without admitting its massive failure. And that is a mind virus. I stand by that. It’s atrocious.
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