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On Mar 29, 1:54*pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6n8j4y7xw Yet string theorists, the silliest members of Einstein criminal cult, are not sycophants of quantum gravity theorists and even hate them to some extent: http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/03/cr...versality.html Motl: "I am going to explain, using Lee Smolin's new paper, why he is a textbook example of a crank and what it means. The paper argues that all theories in the world are equivalent to each other and encoded in the formula "S=Tr(M^3)"." The hatred is generated by texts like this one: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...ingtheory.html Lee Smolin, September 2006: "Well, every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased. And an experiment on the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope, launching next year, will check this. So I've said, look, if the speed of light isn't universal, that disconfirms string theory. But the string theorists say they could probably invent versions of the theory that work either way. We'd have to change our notion of what science is to accommodate this proposition. You just can't do science on that basis." Pentcho Valev |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ience.research
The Guardian, Thursday January 20 2005 "Edward Witten is so softly spoken that his voice sometimes threatens to drift away completely. His desk is a jumble of papers and his blackboard a mess of equations. But his hushed words come straight to the point and are infused with understanding and passion. Witten's quiet manner belies his status. In his role as de facto scientist-in- chief of string theory, Witten, the Charles Simonyi professor of mathematical physics at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, is undoubtedly the heir to Albert Einstein's title of greatest living physicist. If Einstein were alive today, he would probably be a string theorist.....As personal opinions go, Witten's make other scientists sit up and listen. His ideas in the development of string theory are legendary. "There is no question of the extraordinary quality of Witten's intellectual achievements," says renowned physicist Roger Penrose in his latest book, The Road to Reality. "Where Witten goes, it does not take long for the rest to follow." Witten himself does not approve of the cult of celebrity....Predictably, Witten is modest about his achievement. "It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory," he says. "We came up with bits and pieces but there's a long history behind it." Wherever the credit lies, there is no doubt that M-theory took the already bizarre world of string theory into even stranger territory. Before M-theory, strings existed in a world with 10 dimensions. These included a dimension of time, the three familiar space dimensions, as well as six extra dimensions, curled up so small that they are invisible. M-theory demanded an extra dimension for space, taking the total to 11......The future for the string theorists looks bright but there are still some basic questions for physicists to answer. The first is simply - what is the theory describing? "This is unlike general relativity where Einstein laid out the principles and then he derived the consequences," says Seiberg. "We are in the very bizarre, unprecedented situation where we know how to derive some of the consequences but we don't know what the fundamental principles are." Pentcho Valev |
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