String theory is not dead

johncarlosbaez · 3 days ago

Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead".

r721 · 3 days ago

Peter Woit agrees:

>By the way, if somebody is hiring journalists to write propaganda pieces entitled “Field X is not dead”, you can be sure that field X truly is dead.

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14260

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metalman · 3 days ago

if a theory was in fact a zombie idea wouldn't its lurching screams be much like the headline? all it needs to lurch on is more ,BRAINS!, give BRAINS! NOW!

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nradov · 3 days ago

Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead.

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washadjeffmad · 3 days ago

Unobservable, just like string theory.

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