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Is The Fabric of String Theory Unraveling?


September 30th, 2006


By GadgetManiac

AdS/CFT correspondence String Theory, that Theory of Everything that purports to explain all of physics as arising from evanescent strings vibrating in 10, 11 or possibly 26 dimensions, seems to be in a spot of trouble. An article in the New Yorker describes some of the travails of the theory and it’s theorists.

It seems that certain malcontents are deriding String Theory as a Theory of Nothing, saying that it has not produced any testable results, is just a collection of guesses and may well be an unintended hoax.

The author tosses the theory a mock reverse compliment, calling it “mathematically beautiful” and then paradoxically proceeds to savage it’s lack of simplicity.

Unstrung – New Yorker, 2006-09-25

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