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> justify the inordinate amount of money threw at them They're theorists, you're paying for pencils and paper. String theory may not have produced a theory of
by jjk166 2y ago
> justify the inordinate amount of money threw at them
They're theorists, you're paying for pencils and paper. String theory may not have produced a theory of quantum gravity yet, but neither has any other line of inquiry.
- paulpauper 2y agosorta. the construction of particle accelerators has been justified to test the hypotheses of string theory
- torrefatto 2y agoYou are wrong. Particle accelerators have been built since way before any string theory was formulated. The biggest and most powerful existing accelerator (LHC) has been built to fulfill the high energy/high luminosity requirements to explore the Highs boson energy regime (that has been found) and at most the lightest supersymmetric particles (not found as of today). The Higgs boson is a cornerstone of the Standard Model. Supersymmetry is an extension to it that does not involve strings. https://home.web.cern.ch/science/physics/supersymmetry https://home.web.cern.ch/science/physics/supersymmetry
- torrefatto 2y agoYou are right, the amount of money spent in string theory proposals has been staggering if you take into account the size of the field. For decades competing (or even just non-aligned) research lines have been starved to feed this behemoth.
- NegativeK 2y agoHonest question. Do string theorists not use models on supercomputers?