String theory is not dead

10 points by elashri a day ago | 5 comments

johncarlosbaez 19 hours ago |
Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead".
r721 7 hours ago |
Peter Woit agrees:
>By the way, if somebody is hiring journalists to write propaganda pieces entitled “Field X is not dead”, you can be sure that field X truly is dead.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14260
nradov 18 hours ago |
Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead.
washadjeffmad 6 hours ago |
Unobservable, just like string theory.
metalman 4 hours ago |
if a theory was in fact a zombie idea wouldn't its lurching screams be much like the headline? all it needs to lurch on is more ,BRAINS!, give BRAINS! NOW!