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		<title>By: The String Wars and the end of masculinist science &#171; A Fistful of Science</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-72023</link>
		<dc:creator>The String Wars and the end of masculinist science &#171; A Fistful of Science</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a misleading impression in the other direction, leading to the somewhat amusing appearance of my own piece in New Scientist explaining that the theory was for the most part chugging along as before. Hype cuts in every [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] a misleading impression in the other direction, leading to the somewhat amusing appearance of my own piece in New Scientist explaining that the theory was for the most part chugging along as before. Hype cuts in every [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Quantum gravity evidence &#171; Gauge theory mechanisms</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-72010</link>
		<dc:creator>Quantum gravity evidence &#171; Gauge theory mechanisms</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] DISCUSSION OF STRINGY SPIN-2 GRAVITON AND STRING THEORY AT http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] DISCUSSION OF STRINGY SPIN-2 GRAVITON AND STRING THEORY AT <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: String Wars: The Aftermath &#124; Cosmic Variance &#124; Discover Magazine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-71130</link>
		<dc:creator>String Wars: The Aftermath &#124; Cosmic Variance &#124; Discover Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a misleading impression in the other direction, leading to the somewhat amusing appearance of my own piece in New Scientist explaining that the theory was for the most part chugging along as before. Hype cuts in every [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] a misleading impression in the other direction, leading to the somewhat amusing appearance of my own piece in New Scientist explaining that the theory was for the most part chugging along as before. Hype cuts in every [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (Parts 1 through 10); And an Attempt at Understanding String Theory &#171; Rosettasister&#8217;s Weblog</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-61207</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (Parts 1 through 10); And an Attempt at Understanding String Theory &#171; Rosettasister&#8217;s Weblog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] “String Theory: Not Dead Yet” [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Gauge theory errors corrected by facts, giving tested predictions &#171; Gauge theory mechanisms</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-28907</link>
		<dc:creator>Gauge theory errors corrected by facts, giving tested predictions &#171; Gauge theory mechanisms</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] there is also a problem with quantum gravity as usually believed (see the previous post, and also this comment, on Cosmic Variance blog, by Professor John [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jamahl Peavey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-28906</link>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Peavey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I constantly hear about String Theories problem is it can not be tested.   It really doesn&#039;t matter if we can detect strings.  Take the equations, plug in the numbers and lets see what comes out.

Why not try String Theory on Pulsars or Neutron Stars?

See what happens.  We know what happens to General Relativity.  It fails big. I mean real big, so the goal is not to unify General Relativity with anything.

Cosmology was weak during Einstein era&#039;s (ie Local).   We now have the most advance telescopes in the world and that is what is proving General Relativity wrong.  Strings should have stayed on the subatomic level because on this level we know how stars move.  If String try to piggy back on General Relativity the will fail as well.

General Relativity will be replaced but not with Strings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I constantly hear about String Theories problem is it can not be tested.   It really doesn&#8217;t matter if we can detect strings.  Take the equations, plug in the numbers and lets see what comes out.</p>
<p>Why not try String Theory on Pulsars or Neutron Stars?</p>
<p>See what happens.  We know what happens to General Relativity.  It fails big. I mean real big, so the goal is not to unify General Relativity with anything.</p>
<p>Cosmology was weak during Einstein era&#8217;s (ie Local).   We now have the most advance telescopes in the world and that is what is proving General Relativity wrong.  Strings should have stayed on the subatomic level because on this level we know how stars move.  If String try to piggy back on General Relativity the will fail as well.</p>
<p>General Relativity will be replaced but not with Strings.</p>
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		<title>By: Andis Kaulins</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-28905</link>
		<dc:creator>Andis Kaulins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;snip&quot;

that word describes our double-edged scissored view of string theory, which seems like a postmodern system of epicycles .... or ... do branes have brains?

At
http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2005/01/belief-without-proof-evidence-and.htm
we write:

&quot;What are the main logical problems with string theory (alleged physical laws) from our point of view?

a. Perceived physical reality in physics is always a function of the system of measurement. Measurements are by definition relations presupposing frames of reference to be measured by some sort of &quot;measurement ruler&quot;. Thus, &quot;measured&quot; reality is
1) a function of the frames of reference chosen for the relationships being measured (for example, particles, waves or &quot;strings&quot;) and
2) the means of measurement (motion, inertia, velocity, weight, dimension, extension, contraction, etc.) &quot;....

Speaking of &quot;measure&quot;, has anyone considered the rather simple idea that &quot;God&quot; did not &quot;make&quot; the universe, but that God &quot;is&quot; the measured universe....

Perhaps the world is an &quot;ultimate&quot; string - but no string ever vibrates by itself, but needs to be plucked by something - frankly, we think that the idea of an infinitely extensible and unsnippable vibrating &quot;rubber band&quot; is better than simple string theory because it would more accurately reflect a yo-yo world alternating between the impossibles of absolute something and absolute nothing....

For the math freaks this means that the Universe U could conceivably be defined by the formula U = &gt;0 and</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;snip&#8221;</p>
<p>that word describes our double-edged scissored view of string theory, which seems like a postmodern system of epicycles &#8230;. or &#8230; do branes have brains?</p>
<p>At<br />
<a href="http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2005/01/belief-without-proof-evidence-and.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.lawpundit.com/blog/2005/01/belief-without-proof-evidence-and.htm</a><br />
we write:</p>
<p>&#8220;What are the main logical problems with string theory (alleged physical laws) from our point of view?</p>
<p>a. Perceived physical reality in physics is always a function of the system of measurement. Measurements are by definition relations presupposing frames of reference to be measured by some sort of &#8220;measurement ruler&#8221;. Thus, &#8220;measured&#8221; reality is<br />
1) a function of the frames of reference chosen for the relationships being measured (for example, particles, waves or &#8220;strings&#8221;) and<br />
2) the means of measurement (motion, inertia, velocity, weight, dimension, extension, contraction, etc.) &#8220;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Speaking of &#8220;measure&#8221;, has anyone considered the rather simple idea that &#8220;God&#8221; did not &#8220;make&#8221; the universe, but that God &#8220;is&#8221; the measured universe&#8230;.</p>
<p>Perhaps the world is an &#8220;ultimate&#8221; string &#8211; but no string ever vibrates by itself, but needs to be plucked by something &#8211; frankly, we think that the idea of an infinitely extensible and unsnippable vibrating &#8220;rubber band&#8221; is better than simple string theory because it would more accurately reflect a yo-yo world alternating between the impossibles of absolute something and absolute nothing&#8230;.</p>
<p>For the math freaks this means that the Universe U could conceivably be defined by the formula U = &gt;0 and</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Larsson</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-28848</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Larsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 04:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aaron S. Newton was not wrong, only incomplete. Any correct theory needs to reproduce Newtonian mechanics in the appropriate limit. A correct theory of QG does not need to reproduce 10- or 11D ST, only 4D SM+GR.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aaron S. Newton was not wrong, only incomplete. Any correct theory needs to reproduce Newtonian mechanics in the appropriate limit. A correct theory of QG does not need to reproduce 10- or 11D ST, only 4D SM+GR.</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron S.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-28885</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron S.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 19:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hmmmm

It seems I have missed much in the last few months of not checking this blog.

I would like to make a few points here, and I am by no means a physicist, but a few things do strike me as... off.

It does appear that string theorists are struggling to maintain superiority. Many very reputibale scientists are standing up and taking a stand FOR ST. But what they lack is the factual paper results. This has been said over and over, but the mainstream needs (or will need soon) some sort of physical evidence.

Newtonian Physics lasted hundreds of years and was widely accepted because it fit. It had just enough experimentable data to satisfy the main stream, but when we get down to it, newton was wrong. (insert apology for all MOND lovers here)

I am well aware of the difference between MOND and ST, but the point i am trying to make is that every since i got into science (I forecast weather... less complicated lol) was that unless you had some sort of experiment that could be done by many people in many places, unless you had some solid sort of debatable.... thing... then well you dont have much to begin with.

The math is nice to see, and although a bit of it is above my level.. well i am beating a dead horse.


I just don&#039;t understand how ST can be considered the true UFT or any resemblance to it at all...

Maybe someone can point me to something that has all the gouge that I am missing. (A little more in-depth than the powerpoint slide please.. I would like to see some of the math.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hmmmm</p>
<p>It seems I have missed much in the last few months of not checking this blog.</p>
<p>I would like to make a few points here, and I am by no means a physicist, but a few things do strike me as&#8230; off.</p>
<p>It does appear that string theorists are struggling to maintain superiority. Many very reputibale scientists are standing up and taking a stand FOR ST. But what they lack is the factual paper results. This has been said over and over, but the mainstream needs (or will need soon) some sort of physical evidence.</p>
<p>Newtonian Physics lasted hundreds of years and was widely accepted because it fit. It had just enough experimentable data to satisfy the main stream, but when we get down to it, newton was wrong. (insert apology for all MOND lovers here)</p>
<p>I am well aware of the difference between MOND and ST, but the point i am trying to make is that every since i got into science (I forecast weather&#8230; less complicated lol) was that unless you had some sort of experiment that could be done by many people in many places, unless you had some solid sort of debatable&#8230;. thing&#8230; then well you dont have much to begin with.</p>
<p>The math is nice to see, and although a bit of it is above my level.. well i am beating a dead horse.</p>
<p>I just don&#8217;t understand how ST can be considered the true UFT or any resemblance to it at all&#8230;</p>
<p>Maybe someone can point me to something that has all the gouge that I am missing. (A little more in-depth than the powerpoint slide please.. I would like to see some of the math.)</p>
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		<title>By: Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/05/24/string-theory-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-28849</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 17:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AFAIK, &lt;i&gt;SciAm&lt;/i&gt; hasn&#039;t been as egregious as &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=50&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (think pentaquarks, Heim theory, MECOs, Masaru Emoto&#039;s water-woo, the EmDrive. . .).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AFAIK, <i>SciAm</i> hasn&#8217;t been as egregious as <i><a href="http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=50" rel="nofollow">New Scientist</a></i> (think pentaquarks, Heim theory, MECOs, Masaru Emoto&#8217;s water-woo, the EmDrive. . .).</p>
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