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Seems to bear comparison to phone sex lines, in that you're satisfying a basic human need - in this case, to be listened to. John Baez keeps a 'Crackpot Index'
by sevenless 10y ago
Seems to bear comparison to phone sex lines, in that you're satisfying a basic human need - in this case, to be listened to.
John Baez keeps a 'Crackpot Index' score at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
- Animats 10y ago"50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions." Unfortunately, that describes string theory, as Smolin keeps pointing out.
- PeCaN 10y agoDepending on your view, that might not be especially unfortunate. (String theory is, IMO, solidly a crackpot hypothesis until they start using the scientific method.)
- mathgenius 10y agoDo you know what Witten has said in response to this criticism? That string theory predicts gravity. :-)
- selimthegrim 10y agoI like how apparently everyone dismisses string theory predicting Bethe Ansatz results as immaterial largely because no one outside of condensed matter and some math people bothers learning about BA.