>>12640264We don't hate the string hypothesis, we hate shills.
The thing with string hypothesis is that it attracts people out of sheer beauty. It's a beautiful hypothesis, the math is interesting and nice, but in the end it's worthless if you can't produce any meaningful results. Stuff like
>we have three generations of particles because there are three odd-dimensional holes in the Calabi-Yau manifolds attached to each spacetime pointis beautiful, but utterly meaningless as it simply shifts the question from "why are there three particle dimensions?" to "why are there three odd-dimensional holes?" it's a mapping from physical reality to mathematical ideality, and imho that's really detrimental to physics.
