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|content=[Not to complain, but given that the focus is "Theories of Everything" (used here as a term of art), there really should be someone representing the mainstream of the quantum field theory community. I am, as a non-physicist, not in the best position to make this case however.] | |||
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|content=I have been asked by @PBSSpaceTime to appear on Aug. 4th in a new 2 episode Livestream series as the only mathematician among physicists @skdh, @DrBrianKeating, Lee Smolin, @lirarandall, @stephstem, @tegmark, @matt_of_earth & @jbbeacham. | |||
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|content=Why did this work? Because [[String Theory]] attracted top minds from what had traditionally been the cream of the [[Quantum Field Theory]] community, and they‘d clearly found a large piece of mathematical structure. What they failed to find was a connection from that to real physics. 🙏 | |||
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|content=I don’t think there is a problem with string theory per se. | |||
The problem was with *string theorists*. Quite simply, [[String Theory|String theory]] allowed its proponents to put down the work of everyone else by allowing its boosters to claim an imminent solution which never actually ships. | |||
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|content=Further, when ever anyone did something (call it X) that was important but seemingly non stringy or anti-string, the string theorists would publish an all but unreadable paper titled like “X and its Stringy Origin” to claim that *all* good ideas are subsumed by [[String Theory]]. | |||
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