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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=The shortest chapter ever in a Physics book. | |||
From "Why String Theory?" by Joseph Conlon, CRC Press. | |||
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