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I didn't know string theory was dead. I'd read Smolin's critique, "The Trouble with Physics" (2006) when it came out. He wrote as if he's out of the mainstream back then. Apparently his is now the mainstream opinion.

Collier is hard-line Karl Popper - theories must make testable predictions which are later confirmed by experiment. It's good to hear that.

Around minute 34, she's covered the background and gets to the political point. "String theorists are liars". This has caused public hostility to physics. Which translates to funding cuts for particle physics.




I had a similar reaction when I read Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe . It’s a very well written book that champions the cause and explains it in some detail for a layman - and I still came out of it very suspicious about the theory’s validity.




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