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Quantum Gravity Will Be Just Fine Without String Theory
StartsWithABang writes: It's a difficult fact to accept: our two most fundamental theories that describe reality, General Relativity for gravitation and the Standard Model / Quantum Field Theory for the other three forces, are fundamentally incompatible with one another. When an electron moves through a double slit, for example, its gravitational field can't move through both slits, at least not without a quantum theory of gravity. String Theory is often touted as the only game in town as far as formulating a quantum theory of gravity is concerned, but in fact there are five viable options, each with different pros, cons, and approaches to the problem. Many of them, in fact, have undergone significant developments in the past 5-10 years, something String Theory cannot claim.
If people wanted to read everything this guy wrote, they would just subscribe (or whatever) to his stuff on Medium.
The occasional, interesting and timely/relevant article from this guy appearing on slashdot is fine. But we don't need every brainfart showing up.
If anyone wants to read an entire fucking half baked science blog we would subscribe to the entire fucking blog and we wouldn't need every fucking article from that fucking blog reposted.
One or two at the start were bearable, but seriously fuck off!