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String Theory a Disaster for Physics?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sure-is-a-disaster-for-my-brain dept.

BlueCup writes "Mathematician Peter Woit of Columbia University describes string theory in his book Not Even Wrong,. He calls the theory 'a disaster for physics.' Which would have been a fringe opinion a few years ago, but now, after years of string theory books reaching the best sellers list, he has company."

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  1. Re:Wait, what? by bcat24 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    God is entirely good.
    God is entirely perfect.
    God created everything.
    Evil is a lack of good.
    Evil (non-good) exists in this world.

    Since God is good and perfect, he must have a good and perfect reason for allowing evil to exist. Evil must exist in this world so that it is perfect in the end. After all, if we didn't experience evil at some point, how could we truely understand and appreciate the ultimate good (God)?

    Therefore God can exist. This is not a difficult proof.

  2. Re:Maybe this is boon to I.D. by thrillseeker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe Intelligent Design can get some respect if other hard-to-test and long-shot hypotheses are allowed to be called "science".

    Hardly. Scientists are quite happy to take whatever theory best explains whatever they are trying to answer and discard those that don't measure up or better (mathematically) fits the data. In Intelligent Design, there is only one answer allowed to be considered, and all nonconsideration of it is what was once called blasphemy.