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As a long-time antagonist of Kaku and string theory / supersymmetry, Peter Woit naturally has a blog entry[1] on this that's worth a look. He points out Prof G
by ttctciyf 7y ago
As a long-time antagonist of Kaku and string theory / supersymmetry, Peter Woit naturally has a blog entry[1] on this that's worth a look.
He points out Prof Gordon Kane upped[2] the ante:
> By 2020 there will be a Nobel Prize for a string- or unification- or supersymmetry-based theory or explanation or experimental discovery.
And goes on to give us some insight into Kaku's current point of view. Spoiler: he thinks string theory will give us the "God Equation" when it reaches its final form!
1: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
2: http://longbets.org/12/#comment-166313625 http://longbets.org/12/#comment-166313625