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I watched the video, and have been interested in this space as an amateur for a while. It's not worth the hour, would be great in a focused 10 min vid. The cru
by awilcox 3y ago
I watched the video, and have been interested in this space as an amateur for a while. It's not worth the hour, would be great in a focused 10 min vid.
The crux of the video is that string theory isn't really a theory since it's untestable, and that string physicists/authors have overrepresented its utility for decades. She goes through a brief history, and the broken promises (each decade: a new revolution from string theory is just a decade away).
But the arguments around the public erosion of trust in physics involve a few cherry-picked examples that and ignore the wider context around academic research and issues communicating science to the public, especially scientific sensationalism from media outlets (eg God Particle). She argues that the string theorists have played into this and should have been more media savvy in the past, but is relatively unscathing of other non-string theory physicists.
It just gets ranty at the end, "the string theorists lied to us for 30 years" gets repeated a lot.