>>12103683I'm an actual physicist and I'd add although string theory is certainly interesting in terms of being so gorgeous at times it's easy to be convinced that it must be right, string theorists are definitely on thin ice.
Far far too many string theorists engage in behaviour that would be totally unacceptable to any other physicist. They are far too often disconnected from any experimental discussions, and don't really care to make themselves accessible. This sort of behaviour is always concerning, and they make too many excuses for themselves.
They run a serious risk of getting lost in abstract nonsense, and many don't seem to care. I won't go so far as to say that string theory is not physics, but I would absolutely say that they generally don't behave in ways which are healthy for physics.
I say this as someone who was 100% behind supersymmetry until the LHC made me re-evaluate things, and I've since moved away from string theory.
