Inside the tangled world of string theory

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SoTT article:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/181895-Inside-the-tangled-world-of-string-theory

Just a reminder to be very circumspect, doubtful when you see the words "string theory". Seem to be a convenient way for some scientifics to have (infinite) work.

http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1884.0

 

[John G]

One does have to be careful too not to throw a baby out with the bath water. I know a very mainstream string theorist who agreed there is a deep relationship between a string theory worldsheet and Feynman paths. Feynman paths are closely related to good ideas like the many-worlds interpretation and lattice spacetimes.

Other string theory ideas like branes could be useful in a many-worlds lattice spacetime scenario too. Also although the superstring use of supersymmetry is not good, the general idea of supersymmetry is mentioned as a good idea in the transcripts.

String theory in its early days used to be good at looking at GUT ideas and GUTs are a good thing to look at no matter what quantum theory you are using. So out with the Gutless superstring supersymmetry M-theory multiverse landscape and in with the general supersymmetry many-worlds lattice spacetimes with GUTs (or something like that).