String Theory: The Inelegant Universe

[RascalPuff]

http://geocities.com/mileswmathis/string.html

Regards
-RP

[bottomlander]

http://geocities.com/mileswmathis/string.html

Regards
-RP

A nice review on the spacetime wonderland built by string theory.

In my humble opinion, it is doubtful whether spacetime believers are really physics-minded or not.
After Minkowski postulated time as the 4th dimension and developed the spacetime worldview rather than the space-and-time physical view, modern physics became subordinated and surrendered itself to modern mathematics.

It is really ironic that when some physics-minded people want to protect physics with the space-and-time foundation, those mainstreamers in education institutes accuse them as "challenging the foundation of physics". Actually, those noble post-newtonian theorists are protecting the foundation of physics from suborination to biased applications of theoretical mathematics to build unrealistic wonderlands that can only be interpreted with modern mathematics.

Best Regards. Bottomlander

[JPL]

I think I started laughing when the author insisted you couldn't differentiate by anything other than time.

Sure, string theory could be the modern equivalent of alchemy - a dangerous combination of wishful thinking and groupthink - but it isn't because some dimensions may be of time, not space.

The walking and moving sidewalk analogy doesn't make sense either.

[Yeltsin]

I think I started laughing when the author insisted you couldn't differentiate by anything other than time.

Sure, string theory could be the modern equivalent of alchemy - a dangerous combination of wishful thinking and groupthink - but it isn't because some dimensions may be of time, not space.

The walking and moving sidewalk analogy doesn't make sense either.

The willful inclination to self agrandisement, where honest discourse has no meaning has slithered forth again.

[dleviwing]

I don’t think JPL has indulged near as much as Dr. Brian Greene or Kuku Kacu in self aggrandizement!