Not to promote argument, but simply to explain, Brian Greene is the current leader on Superstring Theory. In fact, he has been chastised from the beginning for persuing his theories on fase, rather than factual evidence. In his book "The Elegant Universe", he admits to these large holes in his theory several times: pg. 152, bottom of 2nd paragraph and beginning of 3rd. Page 179, first sentence in 2nd paragraph, page 210 and 211 regarding Edward Witten; "is this prediction correct? We don't know." Page 212 top paragraph goes on to explain that the theory "postulates on nature some hundred million billion times smaller than anything we can directly probe experimentally." Page 215 "The Road To Experiment" further explains the impossibility of proving the superstring theory as "it would requre and accelerator the size of the whole universe" and that "US Congress ultimately canceled funding for the Superconducting Supercollider a 'mere' 54 miles in circumfrance." Therefore, to test superstring theory experimentally, "it will have to be in an indirect manner... observed on length scales that are far larger than the size of a string itself." Page 219 on "Exhausting Possiblities" very specifically shows lack of factual understanding. Page 318 and 319 ("...nor do we have any greater insight... the challenge to the string theorist is to show that some point on the theory map actually describes our universe. To do this requires finding the full and exact equations whose solution will pick out this elusive point on the map and then undersatnding the corresponding physics with sufficent precision to allow comparisons with experiment." Page 328 "As we drove out of the parking lot and left the campus, we realized that although our agreements were strong and convincing, they were not thoroughly airtight". Page 384 regarding supersymmetry: "its experimental confirmation would be a compelling, albeit circumstantial, piece of evidence for strings. Page 385 (summing up, toward the end of the book): "maybe we will have to accept that certain features of the universe are the way they are because of happenstance, accident or divine choice"So, yes, whatever your opinion happens to be, it has large holes in it. Now, what are your opinnions, please?
― Nude Spock, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
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If ghosts existed we would all be seeing them all the time.
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― DG, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Hell, I'm convinced I'm a monkey floating on a rock, but I still speculate on what it is, what I am and all that good mind-numbing shit, knowing full-well I will never know.
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