I think I made a summary above of my initial reaction. But the reason I asked the question is that I agree with you. And after reading a number of comments, I still don't see any definite opposition here. I think the "opposition" of ideas is between the fact that SUSY leaves more to be discovered at (reasonably) accessible energies, while the MV doesn't. That is to say, our physics may have just "fallen out" of the 10^500 windings of strings through Calabi-Yau manifolds with no further explanation - we just happen, for anthropic reasons, to be in a very, very special location in which the cosmological constant and Higgs mass happen to be small, and so on. On this view, this is not due to some deeper theory that we can discover experimentally. The only deeper theory involved is string theory, which is hidden away from possible testing down at the Planck length and up at Planck energy. So the MV explanation is many orders of magnitude away from any possible experimental testing. Naturally that doesn't appeal to the people who run the LHC!
On 22 July 2014 20:58, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Jul 2014, at 02:56, LizR wrote: > > Thanks! I will perhaps have more to say / ask once I've looked at those. > > > I will take a look on Jesse's references once I am less busy. I wait for > you making a good summary :) > (a priori, I see no relation between Suzy and MW). > > Bruno > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
