Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Jun 2015, at 03:58, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Nothing like. All I ask of string theory is that it gives some results
that correspond to observation -- like a derivation of the Standard
Model from more fundamental principles. But it has failed to do this,
even after 30 or more years of effort. So that even string theorist
have given up on this endeavour. So string theory has failed as a
theory of physics, just as comp has failed as a theory of anything at
all.
Computer science has failed? My first prediction for which I was said to
be crackpot was that computers would invade the everybody's home. The
second one was the development of AI and heuristics, the third one was
the quantum computer (indeed the comp-quantum computer), etc.
Bruno, this habit of yours of taking something a person has written and
deliberately misrepresenting it in order to offer a bit of gratuitous
ridicule has become rather annoying.
You do your case no service by descending to rhetorical devices like this.
Bruce
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