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A number of people have asked me to weigh in on this story in Quanta Magazine (based on this paper [ PDF version ] and also reported in t...
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Last week, Sabine Hossenfelder wrote a post entitled "Why not string theory?" In it, she argued that string theory has a much more dominant position in physics than it ought to: that it's crowding out alternative theories like Loop Quantum Gravity and hogging much more funding than it actually merits. If you follow the string...
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My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,...
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Imaginary numbers-the square roots of negative numbers-are an inescapable part of quantum theory, a study shows
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