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Post #Ap9PQHp0yrcgfPFrBA by [email protected] |
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Physics often "goes out on a limb", developing theories that nobody c… |
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@johncarlosbaez it is a common misconception to think the problem here would be… |
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Post #Ap9Q1CYVWVVD348Uk4 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez String theory will still be an interesting branch of mathematics |
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Post #Ap9QjaoGhxIf0sfwNk by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez one thing I have been wondering about is this. We have Quantum … |
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Post #Ap9RN333eSV5t4PI1Y by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Back in the ‘90s as a grad student, the profs working on stri… |
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Post #Ap9SlhozoEnLFO9QZ6 by [email protected] |
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However to determine what this unified theory is, we would need to be able to &… |
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But because these theory are so perfectly fine, each in its own domain of valid… |
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Post #Ap9Sli3WwCQ9ySx2Dg by [email protected] |
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@FelisCatus wrote:"But because these theory are so perfectly fine, each in… |
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Post #Ap9T2w7htALgWh7S0O by [email protected] |
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@BartoszMilewski - yes, we mathematicians are very glad that physicists invente… |
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Post #Ap9T9dHILzbW6bnT4C by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez So what's the alternative? Is there just nobody working on … |
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Post #Ap9TCS0Kj11C0gCtQO by [email protected] |
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@hyperjeff - yes, he is certainly not shy about expressing his views! |
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Post #Ap9TaKevgasiBAaDB2 by [email protected] |
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@julesh - many of the smartest people have quit work on fundamental physics and… |
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Post #Ap9TazCewbd5vMfiIy by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I listened to an interview of Cumrun Vafa by @seanmcarroll abou… |
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Post #Ap9UHRPQSvjJZ8t4cK by [email protected] |
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@internic - The swampland program attempts to study the vast and mucky realm of… |
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Post #Ap9UNFq8OP03QE9UEC by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Obligatory xkcd:https://xkcd.com/397/ |
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Post #Ap9VgYN1ovzYLkIvE8 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I remember a remark from many years ago, but can't at the m… |
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Post #Ap9VgYTPRD60fXI1Am by [email protected] |
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@bstacey - there's definitely a lot of truth to that. So the orthodox QFT … |
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Post #Ap9X3wyebBgtHUcirg by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski Now, if we could just put any of our smartest … |
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Post #Ap9X3x52DSnLbHbooK by [email protected] |
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@bstacey @BartoszMilewski - To understand vertex operator algebras, basically y… |
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Post #Ap9Yod9GEvmFLbPKro by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I remember trying to follow the "firewall" debates wh… |
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Post #Ap9YodFdrCshfOOQoS by [email protected] |
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@bstacey wrote:"*Every* attempt at quantizing gravity has felt vaguely iff… |
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@johncarlosbaez Interesting. None of my research involved high energy physics, … |
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Post #Ap9Z7hpJ4RjXMIAbVQ by [email protected] |
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@internic - if you don't read Woit's blog you don't get the intelli… |
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Post #Ap9c9DXCxxDpqr7JOC by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez And Twistor theorists? |
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Post #Ap9cRFCHWWmMDhvNzM by [email protected] |
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@everyplace - twistor theory is great for theories where all particles are mass… |
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Post #Ap9fTnoQ61HO1DfuPg by [email protected] |
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@julesh @johncarlosbaez There are still a lot of interesting and unexplained th… |
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Post #Ap9fTnv9gyfQM6pHua by [email protected] |
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@BartoszMilewski @julesh - yes, "cosmology" is one subject in the int… |
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Post #Ap9fUoQrHCrkEO8Tw0 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez "string theory cannot fail, it can only be failed". … |
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Post #Ap9fgwjeEQilSQi6cq by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez instinct tells me, from the point of view of looking back after… |
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Post #Ap9i5RdzAJpWB3s5YG by [email protected] |
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@rexi - there's a damned elegant version of string theory that predicts a 1… |
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Post #Ap9kNMNDhPdAx6hRWi by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @bstacey @BartoszMilewski Hi, total math nobody here, love your… |
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Post #Ap9wNdp41TSGWHckxU by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski @julesh In Penrose's 2016 book "Fash… |
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@Madagascar_Sky - great! |
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Post #ApA6dITSAAUkU1cUOO by [email protected] |
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@marklfilteau @BartoszMilewski @julesh - there are definitely good things in hi… |
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@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski @julesh completely agree! |
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Post #ApACqy9j6Mo7FMINSi by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Damn, that's amazing. Thank you for your explanation. I kno… |
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@johncarlosbaez What about criticisms of LQG? That's something I've se… |
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Post #ApB2C7lPfcqAmwlfRg by [email protected] |
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@internic - it's hard to find really good criticisms of loop quantum gravit… |
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@johncarlosbaez @internic > I recommend starting around 2000 and working you… |
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Post #ApB7rgyABHR3cXN808 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I do find it hard to place a lot of faith in Hossenfelder's… |
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@johncarlosbaez Hossenfelder? The transphobe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=… |
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@zvavybir - I don't agree with anyone on all other issues. Hossenfelder i… |
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@johncarlosbaez @FelisCatus What, exactly, breaks down at a singularity? Physic… |
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@Rowena wrote:"What, exactly, breaks down at a singularity? Physics? Or di… |
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Post #ApBqRdJBfJk6ft9c3c by [email protected] |
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@Rowena "Classification seems important, too. A relativistic singularity c… |
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@johncarlosbaez Well, then, there is every reason to suppose that general relat… |
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@Rowena - sure! By the way, I believe quantum gravity will be understood somed… |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh well, don't make it too long. When we finally cause our … |
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@Rowena - I doubt quantum gravity will solve any practical problems except for … |
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@johncarlosbaez She is not just "not right", she is *dangerously* wro… |
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@johncarlosbaez @Madagascar_Sky Sounds like they had a particular definition of… |
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@MartinEscardo - I don't think the concept of 'triangle' is require… |
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@johncarlosbaez @MartinEscardo looks like a crude model of a hyperbolic triangl… |
