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Date of upload: Premiered Jun 17, 2023 ^^
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anyone else here just thinking, I want to hug Roger Penrose. He reminds me of my grandfather at every family get together. Has lived through life, been through this so many times, he's just enjoying being around the next generation that is starting to do the same. This video gets a like - thanks so much for keeping the conversation going!
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I actually experienced this situation while graduating in mathematical physics in Belgium. It was the year 1986 and I wanted to continue the studies towards a PhD. In the dept. there where many groups, but the strongest was string theorists. Proud of their 100s pages calculus which not many understood. I was discouraged to continue physics as it seemed to me so far away from it and I was not so keen in pure math after all. On top of that, no jobs in view...
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What Sabine Hossenfelder has said particularly stands out: that the test of a theory is whether one gets more out of it than one puts into it. General relativity easily passes this test, as does the basic quantum mechanics established in the early 20th Century. Other theories, such as QED, are less clear cut. String theory seems a distance away from achieving this milestone.
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I remember a physics postgrad about 20 years ago complaining that if the research proposal didn't include the words "string theory" then funding would not be forthcoming.
The theory has consumed vast quantities of clever people's time, and delivered nothing remotely useful. And worse, has displaced other work to such an extent that Physics generally seems to have delivered nothing of much value in the last 30 years.
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@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
10 months ago
Do you think the string theory community is problematic? Let us know in the comments below! To watch the full debate, visit iai.tv/video/the-trouble-with-string-theory?utm_so…
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