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As usual, Peter Woit is skeptical: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13924 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13924
by chmaynard 3y ago
As usual, Peter Woit is skeptical:
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13924 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13924
- sega_sai 2y agoThe two quotes from experts there are particularly good: String theory is spectacular. Many string theorists are wonderful. But the track record for qualitatively correct statements about the universe is really garbage,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. " In my view, using today’s AI to calculate the details of string compactifications is such a waste of time that I fear that a future Terminator will come to our present to take revenge for the merciless, useless exploitation of its grandparents."