Is The Fabric of String Theory Unraveling?

by GadgetManiac on September 30, 2006

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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Brett3 January 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM

There was so much hope for the string theory, too. I hope its critics turn out to be wrong.

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BigTimeHockeyMom April 16, 2011 at 5:51 PM

Now, I don’t know much about physics, but it seems like there’d be a big difference between 10 and 26 dimensions.

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