On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Baez's crackpot index is good fun, but it does have some amusing side > effects: > 37. 50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no > concrete testable predictions. > does seem to do considerable damage to current proponents of string > theory: they have the highest possible score on the crackpot index! > Many would say, and I agree, that string "theory" is a work in progress and it's not a theory yet, it's a theory for a theory. Incidentally Richard Feynman said string theory DID make a testable prediction and it failed the test, it predicted space would have 10 dimensions not 3, so they had to stick in a bunch of fudge factors about shrinking 7 dimensions and entangle them in 10^500 different ways. Still, string theory did say there must be a spin 2 particle that sounds very much like the graviton ....so maybe there is hope. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
