When you ban me, you will be banning Einstein, Feynman, Laughlin, Hooft, Glashgow
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It is anomalous to replace the four-dimensional continuum by a
five-dimensional one and then subsequently to tie up artificially one
of those five dimensions in order to account for the fact that it does
not manifest itself. -Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest
String theorists don't make predictions, they make excuses. -Feynman,
Noble Laureate
String theory is like a 50 year old woman wearing too much lipstick.
-Laughlin, Nobel Laureate
Actually, I would not even be prepared to call string theory a
"theory"rather a "model" or not even that: just a hunch. After
all, a theory should come together with instructions on how to deal
with it to identify the things one wishes to describe, in our case the
elementary particles, and one should, at least in principle, be able to
formulate the rules for calculating the properties of these particles,
and how to make new predictions for them. Imagine that I give you a
chair, while explaining that the legs are still missing, and that the
seat, back and armrest will perhaps be delivered soon; whatever I did
give you, can I still call it a chair? -Gerard 't Hooft, Nobel
Laureate in String Theory
"It is tragic, but now, we have the string theorists, thousands of
them, that also dream of explaining all the features of nature. They
just celebrated the 20th anniversary of superstring theory. So when one
person spends 30 years, it's a waste, but when thousands waste 20
years in modern day, they celebrate with champagne. I find that
curious." Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate
I don't like that they're not calculating anything. I don't like
that they don't check their ideas. I don't like that for anything
that disagrees with a n experiment, they cook up an explanation-a
fix-up to say, "Well, it might be true." For example, the theory
requires ten dimensions. Well, maybe there's a way of wrapping up six
of the dimensions. Yes, that's all possible mathematically, but why
not seven? When they write their equation, the equation should decide
how many of these things get wrapped up, not the desire to agree with
experiment. In other words, there's no reason whatsoever in
superstring theory that it isn't eight out of the ten dimensions that
get wrapped up and that the result is only two dimensions, which would
be completely in disagreement with experience. So the fact that it
might disagree with experience is very tenuous, it doesn't produce
anything; it has to be excused most of the time. It doesn't look
right. -Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in PhysicsBut superstring physicists have not yet shown that theory really works.They cannot demonstrate that the standard theory is a logical outcome
of string theory. They cannot even be sure that their formalism
includes a description of such things as protons and electrons. And
they have not yet made even one teeny-tiny experimental prediction.
Worst of all, superstring theory does not follow as a logical
consequence of some appealing set of hypotheses about nature. Why, you
may ask, do the string theorists insist space is none-dimensional?
Simply because string theory doesn't make sense in any other kind of
space. Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate in Physics
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Go ahead--make my day, and immortalize yourself in my documentary.
By banning me, you are banning the Giants of modern physics.
