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The New York Times Reports: Leading String Theorists Admit String Theory is a Government-Funded Hoax--A Faith Based Initiative With No Science To show For It. Moving Dimesnion Theory Will Replace It



 
 
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Old August 14th 05 posted to sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.philosophy,alt.sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories
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Default The New York Times Reports: Leading String Theorists Admit String Theory is a Government-Funded Hoax--A Faith Based Initiative With No Science To show For It. Moving Dimesnion Theory Will Replace It

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If you read about the early days of Edwards Air Base (or Muroc, as it
was called originally) you'll find that they had they share of
mishaps. And, that they could've never made the amazing progress they
did, going all the way from the x-1 to x-15, from barely breaking the
sound barier to going past Mach 6 and straight out of the atmosphere,
would they have been stopping all progress for few years each time a
mishap happened (as NASA does). Fortunately, PR was low on the list
of their priorities.


Since you're knowledgeable about this, and were recently discussing it,
I wonder if you could comment on a plausible bit of tale-telling I
heard once:

To wit -- that the x-plane program, since, as you say, it had already
left the atmosphere, would have naturally resulted in a progression of
aerospace craft which smoothly transitioned to orbit, and were
resusable (like the shuttle); but that progress was stopped by the
Russians putting the first man in orbit, so that we had to go the
fastest possible route to putting "spam in a can", for, as you say,
basically public relations -- at least as far as manned-space flight
was concerned.

I don't know -- I didn't tell it very well, but it's been one of those
little plausible tales I've heard somewhere -- like Ho Chi Minh coming
to the US for help and in admiration, and being rebuffed by
short-sighted red-o-phobes, and subsequently becoming the biggest thorn
in our side, or like the fact that drivers operating with suspended
licenses in NY State would be jailed. (That later turned out to be a
complete myth, so I'm not sure about the others :-).

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