Comment by squeefers
5 hours ago
Susskind himself said its dead in the water. We dont live in an anti de-Sitter space, the basis of string theory.
5 hours ago
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1kolwxm/last_ye...
According to this Reddit thread, he doesn't say it's "dead in the water" at all. It's just a version of string theory.
This is what I'm afraid of. People who aren't qualified spreading fake news on string theory.
I don't claim to be qualified. I just want to call out HN people who are extremely confident that string theory is dead but has no background in physics.
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