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Is he respected here?

>> No.12727612
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>>12727608
>STRING THEORY

>> No.12728356

>>12727608
Futurology is the only way to dream. I miss these thread on /sci/.

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>>12727608
go back

>> No.12728678

>>12727608
Ill take him over science negro man any day

>> No.12728708

>>12727608
Ver much so yeah

>> No.12728926

>>12727608
My only context for him was that he was all over history channel horseshit, being asked to comment on stuff way out of his area of expertise and came off like a total hack.

>> No.12729664

>>12727612
>>12728652
wojacks are the ultimate brainlet cope. It just means, "I'm better than you, but obviously I'm not trying and just by posting this image I'm acting on a lower level", and that's why it pisses people off. Because it's a brain-damaged bottom-feeder trying to talk down to others and that's the message implied within Wojack. I think these memes happen now because everyone can do them, and the internet has become a lot about finding whatever is most algorithmically viable.

>> No.12729679
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>>12727608
Michio Kaku made a fundamental and significant advance in physics, he created light-cone string field theory, following Mandelstam's light-cone formulation of string theory, along with Kikkawa. This contribution was central, because it was the first definition of string theory which was Hamiltonian, meaning it could tell you a detailed story of how strings split and join in space time. It also allowed you to produce a detailed description of the Hilbert space of string theory which is not a scattering space.

The thing about physics is that it has become annoyingly politicized, with two branches--- the technical branch which produces all the results, and the popularization branch which gets all the political clout. This division is extremely unfortunate, but it is a byproduct of the fact that nobody in the general public reads the technical literature. So people with immense technical clout, like Georgio Parisi, are incomparably less politically relevant than those with popular books, like Brian Greene.

This is a plea to the general public: please read the technical literature. I mean it. Please read it. It is a precious production of our culture, it is the main thing we will be leaving to future generations. The 20th century physics literature is our Shakespeare, it is our Homer, it is the thing that defines our cultural legacy to the largest extent. It is not acceptable to have this literature be the domain of an elite, it must be universally appreciated.

Under these circumstances, there will be no need for Michio Kaku to go around selling himself to mass media, he would have been appreciated for his technical contributions, without any need for him to become a publicity hound. But since we don't live in such a world, he has become a publicity hound. It is a bit of a shame, but it will never take away his earlier achievements.

>> No.12729704

>>12729679
>This is a plea to the general public: please read the technical literature.
fuck normies. They can have their bread and games. Don't touch my physics literature, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.12729749

>>12727608
love his presentation on the history of /sci/ 10/10
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk

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>>12729679
This is a good post.
Can you suggest a good journal or two for technical literature?
My field is very physics adjacent, but I'll say I don't really touch anything much smaller than 0.1nm or much bigger than 100km (other than my own interests).

>> No.12729816

>>12729679
This a pasta, perhaps of your own creation

>> No.12729843

>>12729816
looks like he only posted it once before, I'd say that's fair enough to do for a high effort post

>> No.12729911

>>12727608
>one of the founders of string field theory
ya he based

>> No.12729984

>>12729679
Fucking retard, the majority of the population does not possess either the time, ability or will to learn how to read the technical literature. That is why the popularizing branch exists, so the knowledge is not gatekept away from the greater population because of technical difficulty.

This is like asking the entire population to farm their own food. It is much more efficient to have a very small portion of the population that focuses on specific tasks so the rest don't have to. The greater population can eat food without spending any time or energy worrying about where it comes from, or can be fed the latest advances in physics from a populizer that streamlines and simplify's it for them so they can understand without spending a lifetime reading books and math and worrying about where the physics comes from.

>> No.12730041

>>12727608
>but professor you're wrong

>> No.12730841

>>12729679
>he created light-cone string field theory, following Mandelstam's light-cone formulation of string theory, along with Kikkawa. This contribution was central, because it was the first definition of string theory which was Hamiltonian, meaning it could tell you a detailed story of how strings split and join in space time. It also allowed you to produce a detailed description of the Hilbert space of string theory which is not a scattering space.
Is there any empirical evidence for any of this