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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity
in Physical Law (Hardcover)

From Publishers Weekly
String theory is the only game in town in physics departments these
days. But echoing Lee Smolin's forthcoming The Trouble with Physics
(Reviews, July 24), Woit, a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and a lecturer
in mathematics at Columbia, points out-again and again-that string
theory, despite its two decades of dominance, is just a hunch aspiring
to be a theory. It hasn't predicted anything, as theories are required
to do, and its practitioners have become so desperate, says Woit, that
they're willing to redefine what doing science means in order to
justify their labors. The first half of Woit's book is a tightly
argued, beautifully written account of the development of the standard
model and includes a history of particle accelerators that will
interest science buffs. When he gets into the history of string theory,
however, his pace accelerates alarmingly, with highly sketchy chapters.
Reading this in conjunction with Smolin's more comprehensive critique
of string theory, readers will be able to make up their own minds about
whether string theory lives up to the hype. (Sept.)
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Book Description
Has physics gone off in the wrong direction? Peter Woit presents the
other side of the growing debate on string theory--arguing that it's
not even science


At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and
come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even
theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such
ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they
were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions
to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not.

In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. In Not
Even Wrong, he shows that what many physicists call superstring
"theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, even wrong
ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the
subject to survive and flourish.

Not Even Wrong explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in
physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today and shows
that judgments about scientific statements, which should be based on
the logical consistency of argument and experimental evidence, are
instead based on the eminence of those claiming to know the truth. In
the face of many books from enthusiasts for string theory, this book
presents the other side of the story.


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The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a
Science, and What Comes Next (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly
String theory-the hot topic in physics for the past 20 years-is a
dead-end, says Smolin, one of the founders of Canada's Perimeter
Institute of Theoretical Physics and himself a lapsed string theorist.
In fact, he (and others) argue convincingly, string theory isn't even a
fully formed theory-it's just a "conjecture." As Smolin reminds his
readers, string theorists haven't been able to prove any of their
exotic ideas, and he says there isn't much chance that they will in the
foreseeable future. The discovery of "dark energy," which seems to be
pushing the universe apart faster and faster, isn't explained by string
theory and is proving troublesome for that theory's advocates. Smolin
(The Life of the Cosmos) believes that physicists are making the
mistake of searching for a theory that is "beautiful" and "elegant"
instead of one that's actually backed up by experiments. He encourages
physicists to investigate new alternatives and highlights several young
physicists whose work he finds promising. This isn't easy reading, but
it will appeal to dedicated science buffs interested in where physics
may be headed in the next decade. 30 b&w illus. (Sept. 19)
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Review
"Lee Smolin provides a much needed, enlightening and engagingly written
antidote to string-theory hype." --David Deutsch, Oxford University,
author of The Fabric of Reality
"If you want to think in new ways about the interconnected universe
around you, read Lee Smolin's provocative, inspiring book." --Margaret
Geller, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University
"Bold, provocative, and, best of all, a joy to read." --Evelyn Fox
Keller, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, MIT
"Smolin tells the somber tale of contemporary physics with virtuosity,
passion, and courage." --Joy Christian, Oxford University
"An uncommonly clear and confident account of the great obstacles-and
opportunities-facing physics today. . . .engrossing and
illuminating." --Tim Ferris, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way
and The Big Shebang
"[Smolin] exudes a love of science and imagination, and a faith in the
next generation of young physicists." --Jaron Lanier, computer
scientist and columnist for Discover
"Lee Smolin is keeping his eyes open, asks sharp questions, and offers
his delightful insights as a critical insider." --Gerard 't Hooft,
Nobel Laureate, University of Utrecht
"[Smolin's] knowledge of [string theory] enables him to tell the story,
and survey the road ahead, with clarity and grace." --Neal Stephenson,
author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver
"Lee Smolin's understanding of theoretical physics is unusually broad
and deep, and his critical judgments are exceptionally penetrating."
--Roger Penrose, author of The Road to Reality and The Emperor's New
Mind
"Lee Smolin has written an epic story with great energy and
characteristic passion. . . .Thrilling." --Janna Levin, Barnard College
of Columbia University, author of How the Universe Got Its Spots
"Clear, lively, and continuously interesting. . .Reading it is a very
exciting experience and just what is needed at this time." --Kim
Stanley Robinson, best-selling author of The Mars Trilogy
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MOVING DIMENSIONS THEORY WILL TRIUMPH!!!

MDT's postulate: THE FOURTH DIMENSION IS EXPANDING AT A RATE OF C
RELATIVE TO THE THREE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS IN QUANTIZED UNITS OF THE
PLANCK LENGTH, GIVING RISE TO TIME AND ALL CLASSICAL, QUANTUM
MECHANICAL, AND RELATIVISTIC PHENOMENA.

String Theory is a Postmodern Joke!!!!!!!! Even its textbooks say so!!!
String Theory is a Postmodern Joke!!!!!!!! Even its textbooks say so!!!

Moving Dimensions Theory is the new paradigm!!

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"The great irony of string theory, however, is that the theory itself
is not unified. To someone learning the theory for the first time, it
is often a frustrating collection of folklore, rules of thumb, and
intuition. (IN OTHER WORDS IT IS NOT PHYSICS!!!) At times, there seems
to be no rhyme or reason for many of the conventions of the model. For
a theory that makes the claim of providing a unifying framework for all
physical laws, it is the supreme irony that the theory itself appears
so disunited!!"
Chapter 1. Path Integrals and Point Particles: Why Strings?
"Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory," page 5. -Michio Kaku

"If Einstein were alive today, he would be horrified at this state of
affairs. He would upbraid the profession for allowing this mess to
develop and fly into a blind rage over the transformation of his
beautiful creations into ideologies and the resulting proliferation of
logical inconsistencies. Einstein was an artist and a scholar but above
all he was a revolutionary. His approach to physics might be summarized
as hypothesizing minimally. Never arguing with experiment, demanding
total logical consistency, and mistrusting unsubstantiated beliefs. The
unsubstantial belief of his day was ether, or more precisely the naïve
version of ether that preceded relativity. The unsubstantiated belief
of our day is relativity itself. It would be perfectly in character for
him to reexamine the facts, toss them over in his mind, and conclude
that his beloved principle of relativity was not fundamental at all but
emergent-a collective property of the matter constituting space-time
that becomes increasingly exact at long length scales but fails at
short ones. This is a different idea from his original one but
something fully compatible with it logically, and even more exciting
and potentially important. It would mean that the fabric of space-time
was not simply the stage on which life played out but an organizational
phenomenon, and that there might be something beyond." -A Different
Universe, Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down, Robert B. Laughlin,
Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the fractional
quantum Hall effect.

"[String Theory] has no practical utility, however, other than to
sustain the myth of the ultimate theory. There is no experimental
evidence for the existence of strings in nature, nor does the special
mathematics of string theory enable known experimental behavior to be
calculated or predicted more easily. Moreover, the complex
spectroscopic properties of space accessible with today's mighty
accelerators are accountable in only as "low-energy
phenomenology"-a pejorative term for transcendent emergent
properties of matter impossible to calculate from first principles.
String theory is, in fact, a textbook case of Deceitful Turkey, a
beautiful set of ideas that will always remain just barely out of
reach. Far from a wonderful technological hope for a greater tomorrow,
it is instead the tragic consequence of an obsolete belief system-in
which emergence plays no role and dark law does not exist."
-A Different Universe, Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down,
Robert B. Laughlin, Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work
on the fractional quantum Hall effect.

The master antitheory of the age is the idea that there is no
fundamental thing left to discover, so that the world we inhabit is
simply a swarm of detail that belongs to no one and thus can be
legitimately handled by business tactics-resource management,
competitive advertising, survival of the fittest, and so forth. A
corollary is that there is no absolute truth, but only products, like
shirts or hamburgers, that one throws away when their usefulness is
exhausted. Antitheories are dangerous ideologies not only because they
impede inquiry but because they lull one into ignoring threats that
one's opponents can exploit to their advantage."
-A Different Universe, Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down,
Robert B. Laughlin, Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work
on the fractional quantum Hall effect.


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Tied Up & Strung Out: Hollywood String Theory Movie!!! Looking For
Extras!!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ALL TIED UP & STRUNG ALONG, a movie about String Theorists and their
expansive theories which extend human ignorance, pomposity, and frailty
into higher dimensions, is set to start filming this fall. Jessica
Alba, John Cleese, Eugene Levie, Jackie Chan, and David Duchovney of
X-files fame have all signed on to the $700 million Hollywood project,
which is still cheaper than String Theory itself, and will likely
displace less physicists from the academy.



"As contemporary physics is about money, hype, mythology, and chicks,"
Ed Witten explained from his offices at the Princeton Institute for
Advanced Study, "The next logical step was Hollywood, although I
thought Burt Reynolds should play me instead of Eugene Levy."



Brian Greene, the famous String Theorist who will be played by David
"the truth is out there" Duchovney, explained the plot: "String
theory's muddled, contorted theories that lack postulates, laws, and
experimentally-verified equations have Einstein spinning so fast in his
grave that it creates a black hole. In order to save the world, we
String Theorists have to stop reformulating String Theory faster than
the speed of light. We are called upon to stop violating the
conservation of energy by mining higher dimensions to publish more BS
than can accounted for with the Big Bang alone, and I win the Nobel
prize for showing that M-Theory is in fact the dark matter it has been
searching for."


Greene continues: "At first my character is reluctant to stop
theorizing and start postulating, but when my love interest Jessica
Alba is sucked into the black hole, I search my soul and find Paul
Davies there, played by John Cleese. I ask him what he's doing in my
soul, and he explains that the answer is contained in the mind of God,
which only he is privy too, but for a small fee, some tax and tuition
dollars, a couple grants here and there, and an all-expense-paid book
tour with stops in Zurich and Honolulu, he can let me in on it. And he
shows me God in all her greater glory, as he points out that we can
make more money in Hollywood than writing coffee-table books that
recycle Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, Feynman, and Wheeler. I am quickly
converted, and I agree to turn my back on String Theory's hoax and save
Jessica Alba."


But it's not that easy, as standing in Greene's way is Michio "king of
pop-theory-hipster-irony-the-theory-of-everything-or-anything-made-
you-read-this" Kaku, played by Jackie Chan. Kaku beats the crap out of
Greene for alomst blowing the "ironic" pretense his salary, benefits,
and all-expense paid trips depend on. "WE MUST HOLD BACK THE YOUNG
SCIENTISTS WITH OUR NON-THEORIES!! WE MUST FILL THE ACADEMY WITH THE
POMO DARK MATTER THAT IS STRING THEORY TO KEEP OUR UNIVERSE FROM FLYING
APART, OUR PYRAMID SCHEMES FROM TOPPLING, AND OUR PERPETUAL-MOTION NSF
MONEY MACHINE FROM STOPPING!!" Kaku argues as he delivers a flying
back-kick, "There can be ony ONE! I WILL be String Theory's GODFATHER
as referenced on my web page!! I have better hair!"

But Greene fights back as he signs his seventeenth book deal to make
the hand-waving incoherence of String Theory accessible to the South
Park generation, senior citizens, and starving chirldren around the
world. "Kaku! Kaku! (pronounced Ka-Kaw! Ka-Kaw! like Owen Wilson did in
Bottle Rocket)," Greene shouts. "It is theoretically impossible to
build a coffee tables strong enough to support any more coffee-table
physics books!!!"

"Time travel is also theoretically impossible, but there's a helluva
lot more money for us in flushing physics down a wormhole. Nobody knows
what the #&#%&$ M stands for in M theory ya hand-waving, TV-hogging
crank!!! Get it?? Ha Ha Ha! We're laughing at the public! We're the
insider pomo hipsters! Get with the gangsta-wanksta-pranksta CRANKSTER
bling-bling program!!"


How does it all end? Does physics go bankrupt funding theories that
have expanded our ignorance from four dimensions into ten, twenty, and
thirty dimensions? Do tax payers revolt? Do young physicists overthrow
the hand-waving, contortionist bullies and revive physics with a
classical renaissance favoring logic, reason, and Truth over
meaningless mathematical abstractions? Does Moving Dimensions Theory
(MDT) prevail with its simple postulate? We'll all just have to wait!

But in the meantime, how do you think it will play out?

Will theories with postulates ever be allowed in physics again? Or will
the well-funded, tenured pomo String Theory / M-Theory (Maffia-Theory)
Priests send their armies of desperate, snarky postdocs and starving
graduate students forth to displace and destroy all common sense,
logic, reason, and physics in the academy? It must be so--for the
greater good of physics, the individual physicist, and thus physics,
must be sacrificed.

MDT's postulate: THE FOURTH DIMENSION IS EXPANDING AT A RATE OF C
RELATIVE TO THE THREE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS IN QUANTIZED UNITS OF THE
PLANCK LENGTH, GIVING RISE TO TIME AND ALL CLASSICAL, QUANTUM
MECHANICAL, AND RELATIVISTIC PHENOMENA.

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