“I don’t like that they’re not calculating anything. I don’t like that for anything that disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation – a fix-up to say 'Well. it still 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 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 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.”
“Superstring theories demand our spacetime dimension to be 10, which means we should reduce them to an effectively 4-dimensional theory. The standard solution of string compactification, as a generaliz...”
Superstring theory
“I have noticed when I was younger, that lots of old men in the field couldn't understand new ideas very well, and resisted them with one method or another, and that they were very foolish in saying th...”
Superstring theory
“Of all the fields in fundamental physical theory, the gravitational field is picked out as controlling, in Einsteinian fashion, the structure of space-time. This is true even in a unified description ...”
Superstring theory
“Superstring theory starts off by proposing a new answer to an old question: what are the smallest, indivisible constituents of matter? For many decades, the conventional answer has been that matter is...”
Superstring theory