RE: How to imagine the tenth dimension
December 10, 2016 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2016 at 7:36 pm by Autumnlicious.)
String theory (and the rest of its familial variants) has yet to deliver any compelling evidence. Some models are conveniently impossible to test for, requiring on the order of one or two universes worth of energy.
It's a blight that experimentalists are slowly dismantling and making room for new theoretical models that actually match the data. I remember at several points in time for the LHC there was a discussion of "if we get results in $band of energy, it will provide some evidence for string theory/super symmetry variant $X". And every time they found nothing.
Woit continues to be well founded in his criticism, much to the annoyance of Smolin et al.
It's a blight that experimentalists are slowly dismantling and making room for new theoretical models that actually match the data. I remember at several points in time for the LHC there was a discussion of "if we get results in $band of energy, it will provide some evidence for string theory/super symmetry variant $X". And every time they found nothing.
Woit continues to be well founded in his criticism, much to the annoyance of Smolin et al.
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