johncarlosbaez a day ago Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead". r721 10 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
r721 10 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
metalman 7 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!
nradov 21 hours ago Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead. washadjeffmad 9 hours ago Unobservable, just like string theory.
Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead".
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
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!
Like Schrödinger's cat it is simultaneously dead and not dead.
Unobservable, just like string theory.