Carlo Rovelli, A critical look at strings, arxiv/1108.0868.

More technical critical discussion is for instance in The two popular books whose appearance in hindsight mark the change of the nature in the “public perception” of string theory are This page is to collect pointers to some of the criticisms of the theory and/or the way it is treated in the higher energy physics community, as expressed in these discussions.įor general non-technical background information see also at string theory FAQ. While during the 1980s and 1990s the “public perception” of string theory, as expressed by mass media coverage and by scientific funding, had been dominantly enthusiastic with tendentially hysterical hopeful expectations, somewhere in the 2000s the “public perception” in mass media and blogs has gradually turned towards a gloomy attitude with tendentially hysterical pessimistic expectations.

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The theory of fundamental physics called string theory has been the topic of many discussions, scientific discussion but also much discussion about the sociology of the higher energy physics community, concerned with the problem of how to do theoretical high energy physics “beyond the standard model of particle physics”.

string theory results applied elsewhere.

Particle, relativistic particle, fundamental particle, spinning particle, superparticle Gauge group, gauge transformation, gauge fixing (2,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theory and elliptic cohomology (1,1)-dimensional Euclidean field theories and K-theory Perturbative quantum field theory, vacuum Mass, charge, momentum, angular momentum, moment of inertiaĬovariant phase space, Euler-Lagrange equationsĮxtended topological quantum field theory Physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics Surveys, textbooks and lecture notesĮxperiment, measurement, computable physics Twisted smooth cohomology in string theory Green-Schwarz mechanism, differential string structure,ĪdS/CFT correspondence, holographic principle

gravity, supergravity, Yang-Mills theory, quantum gravity.

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