Comment by aurareturn
6 hours ago
Shouldn't string theory be given up on at this point?
Has anti string theory propaganda taken over HN? Sabine Hossenfelder succeeded?
Anyone who is anti string theory actually qualified to make statements saying string theory is wrong or not worth more investment from researchers?
Are these anti string theory posts on HN mostly just laymen hearing how string theory can’t be tested and we wasted a lot of resources on it so it needs to be repeated on every string theory post here?
Susskind himself said its dead in the water. We dont live in an anti de-Sitter space, the basis of string theory.
Source?
Here is a lengthy interview where he discusses this at length (with a timestamp where he says exactly that String Theory, the precise mathematical model, doesn't describe the real world):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok&t=10m15s
This also references this podcast discussion between Leonard Susskind and Lawrence Krauss, where they discuss the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhszd_wqAgQ
Note that he still thinks that there is a way to produce some kind of similar theory, "a string theory" as opposed to "String Theory", could be the best answer.
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