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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. 🙏 | |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. | |content=I don’t think there is a problem with string theory per se. | ||
The problem was with *string theorists*. Quite simply, 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. | 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. | |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]]. | ||
|timestamp=3:41 AM · Oct 19, 2020 | |timestamp=3:41 AM · Oct 19, 2020 | ||
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