Posted on 01/21/2005 8:07:28 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
How long can we keept this up? :-)
Don't know. I'm just about at the end of my rope now.
How long can we keept this up? :-)Don't know. I'm just about at the end of my rope now.
Not really...I was just stringing you along...
Yep, I've seen those blogs. Woit is a very smart guy, but he's completely unenchanted by string-theoretical stuff. Motl's a string-enthusiast. History will show who was right (although we might not live to read the press releases).
"Not really...I was just stringing you along..."
Good, I am starting to feel like a frayed cord.......
"Not really...I was just stringing you along..."Good, I am starting to feel like a frayed cord.......
Man, the lengths people will go to to get in the last word!
"Man, the lengths people will go to to get in the last word!"
Oh, it gives will such a twill to hear that!
"Man, the lengths people will go to to get in the last word!"
To twine own self be true!
To twine own self be true!
Funny line, bud, even though it's a bit of a stretch...
"Funny line, bud, even though it's a bit of a stretch..."
Yup, but I have to quit before I tick someone off and they line me out!
Yup, but I have to quit before I tick someone off and they line me out!
"As we both know, there's been an attempt on your life. You have enemies. I'd say it's a safe assumption that you may have finally run out your string here in north Jersey."—"The Sopranos", #13, "I Dream of Jeannie Cusimano"
This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock.
The proof is left as an exercise to the interested reader.
Full Disclosure: Hey, stop "Learing" at me!
Is String Theory Even Wrong?It is best described by Wolfgang Pauli's famous phrase, "It's not even wrong." String theory not only makes no predictions about physical phenomena at experimentally accessible energies, it makes no precise predictions whatsoever. Even if someone were to figure out tomorrow how to build an accelerator capable of reaching the astronomically high energies at which particles are no longer supposed to appear as points, string theorists would be able to do no better than give qualitative guesses about what such a machine might show. At the moment string theory cannot be falsified by any conceivable experimental result... With such a dramatic lack of experimental support, string theorists often attempt to make an aesthetic argument, professing that the theory is strikingly "elegant" or "beautiful."
by Peter Woit
American Scientist
March-April 2002
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