{"id":21064,"date":"2022-11-09T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=21064"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:09:27","slug":"string-theorists-the-snake-oil-salesmen-of-theoretical-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/string-theorists-the-snake-oil-salesmen-of-theoretical-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"String Theorists \u2013 The Snake Oil Salesmen of Theoretical Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This video is a \u201cdebate\u201d between a string theorist and two actual physicists (including a Nobel Laureate) over the legitimacy of the multiverse model of reality<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s really quite embarrassing.\u00a0 The string guy sounds like a penny stock broker trying to hawk his wares by touting the \u201cresearch\u201d that is just around the corner and right at the edge of proving all the ridiculous tenets of his unprovable or inconsistent or even haphazard concepts.<\/p>\n

The other two physicists and the moderator all seem exasperated by repeatedly slapping down both the substance of his argument and the sleight of hand attempts to conflate the standard understanding of quantum mechanics with the string theory basis for the multiverse model.\u00a0 In fact, these physicists provide arguments against both of these things separately and still the string guy keeps on coming up with cutesy analogies for using space-based probes to look for the equivalent of the \u201cultrasound image of the gestating baby universe in the first microseconds after the Big Bang.\u201d\u00a0 He even manages to talk about the umbilical cord of this fetal universe.\u00a0 It\u2019s beyond silly.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested in watching a string theorist getting slapped around this video might be of interest to you.\u00a0 I know I enjoyed it.\u00a0 String theory seems to be the physics equivalent of communism.\u00a0 It\u2019s a theory that has never worked but provides its practitioners with a funhouse version of reality that they can bloviate about and if they manage to get put in charge of resources waste them endlessly until they bankrupt their host.<\/p>\n

Highly amusing.\u00a0 I was especially amused to hear that the string guy works at my alma mater.\u00a0 Ah, the pride is back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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