Theoretical Physics Breakthrough or Hoax?

Brooklyn Bob writes "Ever get the feeling that some theoretical physics papers just don't make sense? According to this New York Times article, you may be right. Genius or gibberish? Who knows?" This belongs on your virtual refrigerator with nice big virtual magnet.

Comments

That's enough

[EggplantMan]

I am tired of Slashdot's ceaseless battering of the physics community in the name of sensationalism. This is a blatant attempt to sully the good name of physics just because of the writer's inability to understand it.

Sokal, Sch�n, Bogdanov

[davids-world.com]

It's always the physics guys... Remember the Sokal affair? Prof. Alan Sokal, Professor of Physics (NYU), published garbled crap on some weird post-modernist theory in the renowned journal Social Text. Title: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" .

Then, Bell Lab's star physicist Hendrik Schön got caught after having published faulty data. That was fraud on purpose.

The whole thing sheds a bad, bad light on science. I wonder why I work so hard to get my PhD sooner or (most probably) later... I think I should switch to physics.

Re:Contemporary physics is just groping around

[aminorex]

Umm... No.

Ummm... No.

"If the theory were false then I could disprove it"
asserts that the theory is falsifiable. The
conclusion derived is that the theory is falsifiable.
That's begging the question.

Coming back for more? That's begging a spanking.

Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. She might not
spank you so much.