/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15822971
Just a hypothetical idea. People who know nothing about physics treat it as gospel though. These same people also have no idea what string theory really is or what it implies.

>>15823536
enlighten the normies bro, wow youre so smart bro. woow bro tell us bro

>string theory is like a start-up that has yet to deliver a product to market in 20 years

>>15823580
Not at all

>>15823580
more like 40 years

>>15822971
It is a scientific, such as:
global warming
mrna vaccines save lives
the female penis
all men are equal
grains are good for you
race is a social construct
etc

Chud.

>>15822971
string theory is neither a theory nor a hypothesis. the best word you can attach to this discipline is “framework”. that is even generous now that the only things that are relevant in HET research now are loosely associated offshoots like holography or associated speculations on black hole theory

being real, string theory is a failed theory. its legacy lives on in the bodies of outmoded boomers but little else. the little else constitutes young people who do nothing but AdS/CFT and maybe conformal bootstrap.

actually there are some idiots in europe who still do bonafide string theory (see:stringking42069 or the remnants of The Reference Frame) but it’s so marginal that nobody in the rest of the world takes it seriously. the reason the name “string theory” is even used at all still is because of some hope to continue the failed legacies of senile boomers like David Gross and John Schwarz. even Witten (Gross’s protege and wunderkind of string theory in the 80s and 90s) has basically abandoned string theory, even though he’s on the doorstep of geriatric dementia himself

>>15822971
string theory got updated with new genders? cool

>>15823696
Imaginary numbers have practical uses. M-theory is a giant lolcow cope. And there are only two sexes. That's an axiom.

>>15823696
David Gross coined the term “heterotic” for heterotic string theory

(he’s the guy in the blue shirt here)

>>15823701
God is an axiom too, but I keep hearing retards complaining.

>>15823709
>God
why are you even on this board anon? we can argue about whether Millenialism implies a Rapture or whether Allah forgives raping jewesses elsewhere

>>15823701
>Imaginary numbers have practical uses
troons too, they're decent code monkeys with high DEI scores.

>>15823718
I'm not talking about religion

so 100% known if >3 spatial dimensions at any scale???

>>15823722
“God” implies theism, and theism is not /sci/

>>15823706
Who is the semen demon on the bottom right? I need the answer for scientific purposes.

>>15823768
>>15823770

>>15823762
Lisa Randall, Harvard professor and bestselling author on topics including why Dark Matter Extincted the Dinosaurs. very serious physicist.

>>15823740
>and theism is not /sci/
yes it is, it has to do with the metaphysical question

>>15823778
>very serious physicist
Yes, I see.
*unzips dick*

>>15823793
i mean, “Women In Stem” has some benefits after all

>>15823800
>Randall was born in Queens, New York City, New York.[4] She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980,[5] where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and science popularizer Brian Greene.
I think it's fair to say that Brian stille jerks off to her regularly.

>>15823808
for sure. Lisa was a dime, back when they were in grad school together.

too bad it turns out she is some sort of lesbo or asexual. not because i want to fuck her or anything but simply because her Harvard-level bloodline is terminated at her death since she has and will never have kids due to whatever her abstinence arises from

>string theory
Isn't it string HYPOTHESIS?

>>15823859
see >>15823677

>>15823778
>very serious physicist.
I think if you read the Randall--Sundrum papers, it isn't hard to guess which part Sundrum did. I am being an asshole when I say that, by the way.
>>15823768

>>15823921

>>15823921
>it isn't hard to guess which part Sundrum did.
you mean the parts that are original and innovative? who could have guessed

>>15822971
>normies are 100% convinced string theory is confirmed.
tf do you mean? they've turned around since the new generation of physics propagandists started making their whole careers about shitting on strings

my take is that string theory was overhyped but it always brought results, maybe not for "real physics", but a bunch of fields medalists creating a bunch of new, creative and interesting math is enough to make studying it worth it.

>>15825492
>creative and interesting math is enough to make studying it worth it.
Not physics then

>>15822971
Normies know the term 'string theory' exists, and know nothing else about string theory.

>>15825502
so what?

>>15825517
stop calling it physics

>>15822971
>heterotic
hehehehe
>>15823536
This

>>15825545
make me

>>15825545
it is physics
sorry

>>15825581
Be quiet or I'll unleash Sabine on you.

>>15825583
It is a speculative framework, sorry.

>>15825628
it smells like physics

>>15825640
yo mama smells like physics

>>15825626
I'd punch her in her fucking face but it's not my fault, I don't have free will.

>>15822971
Autism trap for mathematicians larping as scientists.

I’d have to say that as an experimental physicist, when I think about what possibilities there are in BSM (beyond the standard model) physics, somehow strings always creep into my mind. even though I do not believe string theory is true. it just has all these standard ways of reasoning for say black hole physics and grand unified theories that are so canonical in string theory that it’s hard not to use them as a benchmark for considering such ideas. so in that way it has become a “part” of physics, just as an entry point.

i’ve seen lee smolin and others say that LQG is a viable alternative to ST, but for experimentalists, LQG provides absolutely nothing. LQG is completely agnostic on phenomenology as far as i can tell and no experimentalist even would begin to take those folks seriously. at least string theory provides some sort of phenomenological roadmap. (even though it has been entirely wrong and every path has been a dead end.) you have to at least attempt to make contact with experiment, and among quantum gravity theories, string theory has been nonzero whereas the rest of quantum gravity has not ever even tried

>>15822971

It's a string *theory* however, it may not have anything to do with reality. It could just be people indulging in idle fantasy.

>>15823696
Imaginary numbers and particles are used to explain and model physical phenomena, not because they actually exist and certainly not to appeal to mentally ill people.

>>15822971
>is it a string theory, or a hypothesis?
it's currently a branch of mathematics, so theorem

>>15827390
no, not a theorem. theorems need to have a proof

>>15825640
then it should be able to make at least one verifiable and falsifiable prediction, no?

>>15827678
no, sounds like you fell for some sophomore hissy phissy scissy memes

>>15823677
stringking42069 seems to have the same attitude toward life as Lubos Motl.

String theory is probably missing some big ideas (Why can't you add fractional spin to supersymmetry and get a D=4 critical string theory?) and people just aren't looking for them.

>>15823701
M-theory has the problem that 2+1D membranes are non-renormalizable, doesn't it. Also, is the moduli space for membranes known the way it is for strings?

>>15823824
Are you sure she doesn't have sex with men? There are other reasons for women not to get married.

>>15827763
apparently Lisa has never even appeared in public with so much as a boyfriend

>>15828067
Is she, dare I say it, a virgin?

>>15823696
Advanced *anything* purpose is to fund more taxpayer money

>>15823696
Imaginary numbers aren't advanced. If imaginary particles refer to ghost particles, then they are a little more advanced, but not really.