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Where does the stigma regarding string theory come from?

Anonymous Sat 11 Sep 23:09:45 2021 No.13630192 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13630269 >>13632268

Why has it been looked down upon by physicists ever since the 1960s?

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Anonymous Sat 11 Sep 2021 23:13:11 No.13630204 Report

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they're more into ropes and cables these days

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Anonymous Sat 11 Sep 2021 23:29:22 No.13630269 Report

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>>13630192
>1960s
no one cares about the early theories, when people talk about string theory now they mean the superstring theories since the 1980s. As to why physicists look down on it? They don't, its one of the most active areas in physics. The "stigma" you refer to probably came from the well-founded skepticism in the early days. These days however, the only skeptics are the ones who dont understand, or just dont see the point.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Sep 2021 23:32:37 No.13630275 Report

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>>13630269
To add to this, the reason string theory is still so popular is that it hasnt been completely disproven. This is really good news because nearly every other approach to quantum gravity fails from obvious reasons. Additionally, whle it hasnt predicted much physics it has predicted a lot of really deep mathematics, and physics uses the same logic as math as far as we know so its good that they agree with each other.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 14:32:19 No.13632268 Report

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>>13630192
failure

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