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Originally Posted by kennyc
Lee Smolin in "The Trouble with Physics" makes a great case for String Theory being mostly wishful thinking. He was involved in the research for may years before abandoning it. I tend to agree with his analysis and his arguments. There are too many unknowns and possible variables as well as the lack of any unique predictions (that might be measured by the LHC).
The Higgs is the big one. If the LHC fails to detect it then all of physics could be at a crisis point.  |
Roger Penrose is another who has little use for string theory or even more conventional theories of quantum mechanics. There's an
interesting interview that was published in the September 2009 issue of
Discover in which he says that pretty much
everyone has it wrong.