10 points | by elashri 17 hours ago ago
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Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead".
Peter Woit agrees:
>By the way, if somebody is hiring journalists to write propaganda pieces entitled “Field X is not dead”, you can be sure that field X truly is dead.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14260
Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead.
Unobservable, just like string theory.
Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead".
Peter Woit agrees:
>By the way, if somebody is hiring journalists to write propaganda pieces entitled “Field X is not dead”, you can be sure that field X truly is dead.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14260
Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead.
Unobservable, just like string theory.