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10065382 No.10065382 [Reply] [Original]

when will /sci/ stop worshiping witten? the dude is a string theorist who's never made a meaningful prediction of the real world, and the "PHENOTYPE" idiots love him since he's jewish, which in the end doesn't amount to any reason why to worship him. even his fields medal is no reason to worship him since mathfags are pretty bad at physics, rite?

why can't we worship Gell-Mann or 't Hooft or Bob Laughlin or Phil Anderson or Steven Weinberg? or if you insist on a young guy, then Alexei Kitaev is fucking blowing shit up

pick a better physicist, you know like one who actually does physics that can be related to the real world

>> No.10065391

You're a fucking retard.

>> No.10065397

>>10065391
how so

>> No.10065683

>>10065397
Because you insult a chosen one.

>> No.10065690

>>10065391
This... Witten is infinitely more intelligent than you, OP, you arent at any position to criticize him. If anything you should watch all his lectures and actually try to understand how far beyond average human his mental prowess is.

>> No.10065692

>>10065382
it's not just /sci/, the actual physics community loves him too

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10065720

>kitaev
a literal who and basically comp sci

>> No.10065777

>>10065382
>the dude is a string theorist who's never made a meaningful prediction of the real world
You say that like being a string theorist is a bad thing: he has done some amazing physics, and some of it has made predictions, about cosmic strings, dyons and fractional charges, and proved theorems in QFT such as the characterisation of the possible anomalies in gauge theories, and the famous Weinberg-Witten theorem.
>even his fields medal is no reason to worship him since mathfags are pretty bad at physics, rite?
This is absolute nonesense: he isn't a mathematician, he's a physicist whose work was so powerful and novel that it led to heaps of new mathematics. There are plenty of people who do work on both maths and physics, and out of everyone I'd say mathematicians are the best non-physicists at physics.
Indeed, in the past there was no such thing as a physicist -- they were all mathematicians!

>> No.10065785

>>10065382
>the dude is a string theorist who's never made a meaningful prediction of the real world
No, dumbass, some dark matter detectors currently in use were proposed by Witten: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.31.3059
Learn before criticizing.