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> not in departments I don't think it's valid to lay the blame for the failure of string theory on the media. There are plenty of academics who pushed string t
by nightowl_games 2y ago
> not in departments
I don't think it's valid to lay the blame for the failure of string theory on the media. There are plenty of academics who pushed string theory for years and years and years. The media and public got tired of hearing about it far before they got tired of researching it.
- monadINtop 2y agoyeah, and they pushed it as a theory of everything (which I think they had justification to believe for the first few decades [~] to get funding. So I also blame the entire economic system that academia is unfortunately embedded in. [~] It still isn't neccesarily ruled out, it's just incredibly unfeasible at the moment as a physical theory since it is currently very poorly understood and like centuries away from experimental tests (as is any GUT or QG theory i.e. this is not a criticism of string theory but basically any theory past the standard model). However it is extremely interesting currently as a subject in mathematics, and it has deep connections with current research in algebraic geometry and the geometric langlands program.