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A rather skeptical perspective on this article: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778
by subnaught 10y ago
A rather skeptical perspective on this article: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778
- tinym 10y agoWoit's language is usually so measured it's actually shocking to see him straight up call someone 'embarrassingly incompetent'
- M_Grey 10y agoI actually think it was bordering on generous to the Quantum article, and I'm not sure that in a similar position I would have been satisfied with only restrained mockery.
- neaden 10y agoUnfortunately as a lay-person I think that modern physics has grown to complicated that I have no basis for really judging who is right or wrong in an argument like this. Wolf's article seems more persuasive, but that doesn't mean that he's right.
- kordless 10y agoInternal realities are all valid. People who insist of making their internal reality everyone else's external reality (to the limit of understanding) are judgemental. It's a paradox.
- woodandsteel 10y agoNon-physicist here. Woit makes very negative comments about Cole, but my impression was he has the same basic view about the status of string theory as the one expressed in the article. Could someone explain how they are different?