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|content=Wouldn't a scientist ask the question:
 
"What if it is the leadership?"
 
Wouldn't that be a logical scientific question? Wouldn't that be a testable hypothesis? Why can't we ask that question as scientists? Why is that hypothesis excluded after *50* yrs?
 
[End Of Heresy]
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|content=Discussion of the future of theoretical physics seems like a game of "Intellectual Keepaway."
 
Its the same group of mandarins who predicted LHC SuperSymmetry, Mini-Black holes, SU(5) Grand Unification, String Theory, Q-Gravity would work.
 
What do our *heretics* say instead?
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|content=For the moment, let me entertain a wild idea. Truly wild.
 
Here goes. What if the problem is our leadership. What if we asked
 
"Who believe String Theory wouldn't work?"
"Who never claimed LHC SUSY was imminent?"
"Who never said Proton Decay was going to be found?"
 
Etc.
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|content=Said differently, what if our leadership is brilliant but SPECIFICALLY untrustworthy in identifying the path forward. What if 1000 David Gross & Ed Wit1ten Keynotes setting the agenda are the problem? What if Lenny Susskind is not correct sbout non-string people wasting our time.
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|content=What if we *excluded* people who are consistently wrong about the path forward and asked:
 
"Are there any OTHER ideas? Not Strings. Not Loops. Not Asymptotic Safety. Not Simple Compact GUTs. Not Quantum Computing. Not Black Hole Information. Not Technicolor. Not Amplitudes."
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|content=Why is being older with a long track record of not making progress the way we select our leadership?
 
What if for 3 years we tried to ask: IS THERE ANYONE ELSE OUT HERE WITH OTHER IDEAS?
 
I know. It's stupid. It's crazy. It's self-serving. But it has been 49yrs+11Mos of this.
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|content=Look, we could just hold a conference: "Fundamental Physics: Can't *Anybody* Here Play This Game?"
 
David, Ed, Maria, Cumrun, Nati, Lenny, Juan, Lee etc. could be respondents giving constructive feedback. We would then at least learn why we are where we are. But this is nuts.
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|content=So I will say it from outside the field. I think the problem is that we aren't actually doing fundamental physics and havevn't been for decades. I want a survey of ALL the OTHER paths. It would probably cost a few hundred thousand dollars  to fix this field. But this is bizarre.
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|content=Let's survey the heretics who aren't even worth talking to...and then we can go right back to tiny progress when we're done, following Strings, Loops, SUSY, Standard GUTS & Asymptotic Safety all over again. At least we will know WHY we are stuck.
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|content=@arivero Not my read. It took place just before the G-S anomaly cancellation. The Murray keynote is the best summary of the problem that lead to the String Theology. It mentions String Theory but doesn’t focus on it. It is the last gasp before the transition.
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|content=Wonderful to exchange ideas with @RogerPenrose5 @bgreene @tasneemzhusain on String Theory and the underlying source of the unique  controversy that has swirled around it for decades. Thanks to @HTLGIFestival for putting this together! Great panelists and moderation!
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|content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing  theories of physics.”
 
Let’s finally get serious about this whacky subject? Thanks. 🙏
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|content=Now I feel completely alone.
 
I want our wanting out of this story. I have a huge dog in this fight. I spend every day fighting my own human desire for GU to be proven correct.
 
I believe this is how String Theorists stopped being scientists.
 
I just want our data & the physics.
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|content=I want this to be real. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
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|timestamp=4:36 AM · Jun 7, 2023
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|content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting.
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|content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data.
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|content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet.
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|content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists.
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|content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies.
 
I fight like hell to promote my theory. But I’d sign on to another to know the truth if I was wrong.
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|content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc.
 
To go beyond GR, let’s be scientists & get NatSec out of our data first. Where is our data pruned of space opera disinformation and cultic religiosity?
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|content=What I want to know:
 
Why was the Mansfield Amendment passed?
 
Why did NSF fake a labor shortage in our MARKET economy destroying American STEM labor markets?
 
What stopped the Golden Age Of General Relativity?
 
Why was the SSC really cancelled?
 
StringTheory & STAGNATION: WTF?
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|content=What the hell was the 1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference actually about?
 
Why are we not stopping to QUESTION quantum gravity after 70 years of public *FAILURE* inspired by Babson-Behnson patronage of RIAS, the Institute of Field Physics and the precursor to Lockheed?
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|content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the Standard Model Lagrangian. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left.
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|content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of  1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle?
 
Quantum Gravity is fake and works to stop actual physics.
 
There. I said it. Now let’s talk.
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|content=Alternate thought experiment. 20 years from now there has been no progress beyond the standard model of particle physics. @FrankWilczek is the last living particle theorist to have made traditional contact with the physical world. What is a leading particle theorist in 2044, when no one has made progress in 70 years? Will we even know if anyone is really doing physics at that point when there are no traditionally successful theorists left but one?
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|content=Thought experiment. Assume the final theory exists, is agreed upon in 2024, and has nothing to do with String Theory.
 
How would historians account for the monomania of the last 40 years? As a cult? A scientific mass delusion? The political economy of a failed generation? A hoax?
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|content=@TomBilyeu @JosephPConlon My completely crazy claim: I don’t think there is a log jam. String theory is relentlessly jamming the future. It has taught people how to *stop* progress.
 
The future of physics is not necessarily evenly distributed.
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|content=Thank you for asking for the Steel-manned version of the issue with String Theory from a critic.
 
String theory is basically a fairly self consistent mathematical constellation of geometric ideas related to Quantum Field Theory developed by brilliant minds. If Gravity is to be quantized in the form that physicists naively expected, it would be likely that it would be our first or at worst second best guess as to how that works. I am willing to say this clearly. But there is no one telling us that gravity must be naively quantized.
 
ST has taught us many things (e.g.  dualities in QFT, to means of avoiding super luminal Rarita Schwinger fields, coupled to internal symmetry, etc.) that are now part of our knowledge base.
 
The quantum gravity fanaticism is the problem. There is no reason that gravity has to be *naively* quantized as claimed. A giant 70 year mistake that actually predates theory by over a decade. Simply put, we are *not* being called to quantize gravity as the overarching organizing principal for modern particle theory research.
 
Think of String Theorists as akin to a fanatical absolutist monastic order discovering and developing Linear Algebra as a proof of the literal story of Jesus. The problem wouldn’t be with  the linear algebra!! It’s the claimed strength of the application and it’s motivation that is the problem.
 
ST is at least mathematics. But it just doesn’t work as a leading program for physics because of its fanatical behavior patterns. That screwed up fundamental physics.
 
After 70, 50 or 39 years of stagnation (depending on how you count), this is clear to all but the fanatics. But the damage to scientific norms has been catastrophic. They failed in the application as measured by all reasonable metrics including (most importantly) those they originally set for themselves. And that is it in a nutshell.
 
Again, Thanks for asking. 🙏
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|content=I don’t mean to be judgmental. But I don’t think this makes physical sense as explained. That is quite independent of the issue of additional dimensions.
 
Higher dimensions aren’t all about holography, Calabi-Yau manifolds, String Theory etc. This sounds wrong at a physics level.
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|content=My old friend @edfrenkel on coming back from the big String Theory conference in Canada:
 
“[F]or the health of the subject going forward, I believe it is necessary to reckon with the past and accept responsibility.”
 
Check out Ed’s whole thread:
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