5,994
edits
String Theory: Difference between revisions
→2024
(→2024) |
(→2024) |
||
| Line 3,552: | Line 3,552: | ||
|timestamp=6:21 PM · Feb 26, 2024 | |timestamp=6:21 PM · Feb 26, 2024 | ||
}} | }} | ||
| Line 3,567: | Line 3,564: | ||
A: Ha. Emphatically not. Repeat after me: "String theory is merely a (N+1)^{th} Century Theory of physics which fell into the N^{th} century, where N must be incremented by 1 every 100 years. There are no other theories. There are only words. There are no other theories...there are only words. You are getting sleepy. You are learning to accept. There are no other theories....only words..." | A: Ha. Emphatically not. Repeat after me: "String theory is merely a (N+1)^{th} Century Theory of physics which fell into the N^{th} century, where N must be incremented by 1 every 100 years. There are no other theories. There are only words. There are no other theories...there are only words. You are getting sleepy. You are learning to accept. There are no other theories....only words..." | ||
|media1=ERW-X-post-1765626144215474344-GIDB4wBb0AA6zlm.jpg | |media1=ERW-X-post-1765626144215474344-GIDB4wBb0AA6zlm.jpg | ||
|media2= | |media2=String-Theory.jpg | ||
|quote= | |quote= | ||
{{Tweet | {{Tweet | ||
| Line 3,727: | Line 3,724: | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Tweet | |||
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg | |||
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1775032523275599900 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein | |||
|username=EricRWeinstein | |||
|content=[Note: This Graph dramatizing just how dramatically we have reached a new regime was made in good faith, but was both complicated and somewhat involved to put together. I am solely responsible for its construction; any oversights or errors within it lie entirely with me. I encourage others to check it, and I will be happy to correct it if necessary. However, the basic point is that the Standard Model and General Relativity are now both 50 years old, and the hope that String Theory / M-Theory would provide the next big insight has been downgraded many times in the years since the 1984 G-S anomaly cancelation ushered in the modern String Era. ] | |||
|thread= | |||
{{Tweet | |||
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg | |||
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1775027625800659090 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein | |||
|username=EricRWeinstein | |||
|content=I've a tradition where I use April 1 not for pranks, but to say a difficult thing that's actually TRUE. | |||
We're now in a current fad where famous physicists deride even the mere idea of any crisis in fundamental physics, treating those who claim one as delusional. | |||
They're lying: https://t.co/Vd1veqR50W | |||
|timestamp=5:08 AM · Apr 2, 2024 | |||
|media1=ERW-X-post-1775027625800659090-GKImu_BbwAAQDA1.jpg | |||
}} | |||
{{Tweet | {{Tweet | ||
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg | |image=Eric profile picture.jpg | ||
| Line 3,744: | Line 3,762: | ||
|timestamp=5:12 AM · Apr 2, 2024 | |timestamp=5:12 AM · Apr 2, 2024 | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Tweet | |||
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg | |||
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1775029719005831388 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein | |||
|username=EricRWeinstein | |||
|content=I am prepared to stand by the following claim: I believe that every single member of the theoretical physics community knows that there is *nothing* at all abberant about seeing the current regime as a potentially catastrophic crisis for fundamental physics. | |||
Without exception. | |||
|timestamp=5:17 AM · Apr 2, 2024 | |||
}} | |||
|timestamp=5:28 AM · Apr 2, 2024 | |||
}} | |||
| Line 3,764: | Line 3,793: | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Tweet | {{Tweet | ||
| Line 3,793: | Line 3,821: | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Tweet | {{Tweet | ||
| Line 3,927: | Line 3,954: | ||
{{ | {{Tweet | ||
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg | |||
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1836463647587201186 | |||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein | |||
|username=EricRWeinstein | |||
|content=This is so funny. | |||
1984: “String theory *must* get *all* the resources because Quantum Field Theory *cannot* ever do what String Theory can. That’s just a cold fact.” | |||
[40 years later….] | |||
2024: “We aren’t a mass delusion in the form of an obviously failed scientific research project that spun out of control in full view of the world if we are equivalent to what we said would never work. That’s it! String Theory 4evah.” | |||
This is getting ridiculous beyond the ridiculous ridiculousness of previous ridiculousnesses. After four decades of this, there just aren’t good words. I’m sorry. | |||
|quote= | |||
{{Tweet | |||
|image=PioneerWorks_-profile-NvGqKhem.jpg | |||
|nameurl=https://x.com/PioneerWorks_/status/1836155668983877688 | |||
|name=Pioneer Works | |||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/PioneerWorks_ | |||
|username=PioneerWorks_ | |||
|content=We now have powerful evidence that—shockingly—string theory and quantum field theory are actually different languages for expressing one and the same physics. Brian Greene (@bgreene) revisits The Elegant Universe, 25 years later. @wwnorton @JannaLevin https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/brian-greene-the-elegant-universe | |||
|media1=PioneerWorks_-1836155668983877688-X-post-GXsUHSjWMAEp_m9.jpg | |||
|timestamp=5:53 PM · Sep 18, 2024 | |||
}} | |||
|timestamp=5:53 PM · Sep 18, 2024 | |||
}} | |||