/sci/ - Science & Math

>Jews start monopolizing physics and mathematics research in the 1970s

>No new breakthroughs are made now after 50 years while ((they)) direct the world's efforts to fumble around in esoteric garbage like strong theory and quantum gravity.

Coincidence?
Pic related.

>be me
>go to a prof office hours
>this guy is brilliant
>does excellent research, wins awards on papers
>able to communicate and teach exceptionally well
>only in his 30s but is full time prof
>every sign points to this guy being brilliant
>asking him questions
>professor, whats the difference between a matrix and a tensor?
>he pauses
>"i actually dont know"
>he hesitates
>"thats a good question because im not sure"
how did this happen?

I have a friend who has recently finished a PhD in string theory. He wasn't working on anything to do with our universe but instead was working on some tractable problems in a part of string theory. I've read this described not as physics or mathematical physics but instead 'physical mathematics' - i.e. math using physically motivated ingredients and concepts but not with any particular goal to explain anything we can observe.

Is this the end-game for string theory?

Is there any hope that gravity, the standard model of particle physics, dark matter can be explained in terms of strings? I remember a few years ago there seemed to be a lot more noise about the possibility of this but it seems quieter now.