String theory has never made a prediction that has come true and gets disproven each time we build a bigger particle accelerator and discover new particles. Like the theory can't even explain basic observations about particle physics and the universe. The String theorists just keep telling everyone that it will work out bro, trust us, give us more funding.
Like the only reason it hasen't been abandoned yet and is still weirdly popular is becuase of the perverse incentives in academics where it pays more to pursue this kind of groundbreaking nonsense than trying to advance the frontier of the established and boring Standard Model. And it's easy to be groundbreaking when you are just making shit up. Just think of the millions in research funding these charlatans have scammed from us. They have played us for absolute fools.
We need to round up all the String theorists and parade them through the streets with dunce caps, Cultural Revolution style. We need to do 70 hour struggle sessions against them until they pass out from exhaustion.
"Particles are actually tiny strings that wiggle" "There are 11 dimensions but you don't notice the extra ones cause their are too small" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
Mhm, all two of them.
yeah, just most of the major physics communicators of the last 30 years other than like Neil Degrasse Tyson. the brian greene's and michio kaku's broke physics communication to the public, and it's been fucked since.
I love that I said "all two of them" and then you literally named only two lmfao
they were also doing irreparable damage to public understanding of the field, we both understand there were more string theory apologists than those, sorry you didn't get a researched list of all the string theorists that have said dumb shit about their theory in public. Ed Witten counts for this, any time one of these numbnuts gives an interview it counts. james sylvester gates counts. any string theorist with a public audience has used it to advance their own bullshit
If you're so concerned about public damage in science your efforts are wasted on Ed fucking Witten (nobody knows who he is outside a niche circle) compared to say Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos whose tech bro rocket man AI antics are about a trillion times more damaging.
I'm not really concerned about it, but i also didn't roll into this post calling people essentially illiterates. of course billionaire tech psychos are a trillion times more damaging. i'm just not going to call people illiterates for agreeing that string theory is silly. i'll defend them because it is silly, it's not even wrong.