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If you look at string theory as a piece of mathematics, which may provide a language for physicists to use and generate hypotheses, it doesn't seem so bad. I su
by reikonomusha 9y ago
If you look at string theory as a piece of mathematics, which may provide a language for physicists to use and generate hypotheses, it doesn't seem so bad. I suspect this is closer to the motivation of the theoretical physicists working on it (including folks like Ed Witten, who are really mathematicians in disguise).
- AstralStorm 9y agoHopefully to be replaced with something far less cumbersome soon. And providing testable hypotheses.
- noobermin 9y agoString theory might occupy a different space perhaps, this is kind of like changing the underlying domain so now your function is "continuous" somewhere, although String theory and HEP theory in general isn't quite rigorous enough to be considered mathematics proper.