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Several big warning signs, if you read between the lines: 1) All the string people are saying they are applying strings to different fields. That means funding
by arcanus 10y ago
Several big warning signs, if you read between the lines:
1) All the string people are saying they are applying strings to different fields. That means funding is drying up.
2) No new blood: they are quoting all the same people as 10 years ago. No breakthroughs since Maldacena, it sounds like.
- ISL 10y agoIn the case of 1), the string theoretic tools, including AdS/CFT appear to be more effective in condensed matter physics than in their originally-intended use. I've been glad to see the emergence of the Grassmannian/'amplituhedron' ideas, as they're different, and different would appear to be good.
- orbifold 10y agoSilverstein is fairly new, but yeah I really hope that young people are wise enough not to join. The masters are for the most part way past their glory days and super symmetry all but dead.
- auntienomen 10y agoRead more carefully. About half the people quoted in the article are postdocs or junior faculty.