“You may have heard there’s a crisis in physics!! No there’s not.” -@seanmcarroll (Mindscape 263 intro) This has gotten beyond ridiculous. Read this quoted tweet. WTF? What next? “String theory is Planck scale physics that just happened to fall into the ElectroWeak regime.” “String theory means never having to say you’re sorry.” “The true string theory has never been tried.” “What is the sound of one string scattering?” “String theory is what we will rename any outside ideas that successfully challenge what we before claimed was string theory.” Etc. There is *obviously* a crisis in fundamental physics. There is no way to pretend otherwise any longer. How is this continuing? We should have this out as a scientific discussion.
“You may have heard there’s a crisis in physics!! No there’s not.” -@seanmcarroll (Mindscape 263 intro) This has gotten beyond ridiculous. Read this quoted tweet. WTF? What next? “String theory is Planck scale physics that just happened to fall into the ElectroWeak regime.” “String theory means never having to say you’re sorry.” “The true string theory has never been tried.” “What is the sound of one string scattering?” “String theory is what we will rename any outside ideas that successfully challenge what we before claimed was string theory.” Etc. There is *obviously* a crisis in fundamental physics. There is no way to pretend otherwise any longer. How is this continuing? We should have this out as a scientific discussion.
@EricRWeinstein I mean, Sean Carrol isn’t a proponent of string theory. Physics isn’t string theory and it seems most physicists are moving away from it in general.
@EricRWeinstein Known physics explains 5% of the universe. But “there’s no crisis”. 🤣
@EricRWeinstein @seanmcarroll String theory may be the answer to everything… …but then again, it might knot.
@EricRWeinstein @EricRWeinstein how would one prove there is an obvious crisis? That there has been no new real world application of physics in 50 + years? What is the right metric to look at here?
@EricRWeinstein @EricRWeinstein what happened to your geometric unified theory of “everything”?
@EricRWeinstein @seanmcarroll It’s pretty simple. The real physics has been classified by the military/IC since the invention of the bomb. String theory is a distraction set upon the public by military intelligence. Publicly known physics is mostly a distraction.
@EricRWeinstein String Theory is great! It's that woo thing content creators can shape and form into whatever they want it to be :)
@EricRWeinstein I think the strings vibration comes from space moving through them. Similar to a wind chime.
@EricRWeinstein @seanmcarroll Again, saying out loud what we all whisper, its not in crisis, its undergoing ontological shock! You know why... The grift is comming to an end my gifted friend with a bright light ahead.