[dba-Tech] OT: Physics

And...you're reading this on purpose, or is someone punishing you????? ;)

Susan H.


> I'm reading a book called "The Trouble with Physics", by Lee Smolin (no
> relation to our esteemed Rocky -- I already checked with him). A thumbnail
> sketch is that string theory is all wrong. I won't give away much more of
> the plot than that. I will confess to having been attracted to string 
> theory
> at its outset, but Lee makes some absolutely wonderful points that concern
> verifiability, new vistas emergent from said conjecture, and so on. I'm 
> only
> halfway through the book but so far I think his arguments are convincing.
> String theory has not opened a single doorway, while it has consumed
> millions of dollars in grants. It sounded good at the time.