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Unfalsifiable claims are uninteresting. Just Google the phrase "string theorists claim" and prepare to scroll through vast swaths of discarded theories.
by 0xbadc0de5 2y ago
Unfalsifiable claims are uninteresting. Just Google the phrase "string theorists claim" and prepare to scroll through vast swaths of discarded theories.
- bruhthuh 2y ago[dead]
- chneu 2y agoMy understanding is that string theory has basically been tossed aside by most of the field. It's one of those things that got public support as it fell out of favor in academia. Now it won't go away because the public likes it.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- sshine 2y agoThe public likes Sheldon Cooper.
- raverbashing 2y agoWhat I think happened is that this is probably one of the biggest "speculative steps" physics has taken without enough experimental evidence Sure, it's fine to think about and theorize, but I think they got way ahead of themselves than what the experimental results allowed them.