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Even Supersymmetry and [[String Theory]] aren’t Sketch…Let alone dark matter and dark energy. And I am among the longest standing public critics wiling to say that [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] are totally failing as solid physics programs. | Even Supersymmetry and [[String Theory]] aren’t Sketch…Let alone dark matter and dark energy. And I am among the longest standing public critics wiling to say that [[String Theory|string theory]] and [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] are totally failing as solid physics programs. | ||
MORAL: Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the *culture* not the *theory* that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics. | [[Morals|MORAL]]: Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the *culture* not the *theory* that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics. | ||
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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|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. | |||
[[String Theory|ST]] has taught us many things (e.g. dualities in [[Quantum Field Theory|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|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 Theory|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 its motivation that is the problem. | |||
[[String Theory|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. 🙏 | |||
https://x.com/_abitterorange/status/1681528357790310400 | |||
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