From Columbia mathematician Peter Woit’s Not Even Wrong blog:
Today I happened to come across a really wonderful discussion there though, and wanted to draw attention to it, even though it’s from a year ago. It’s entitled A View from an Ex-String Theorist and consists of a long piece by someone who has recently left string theory, as well as some answers to questions asked by others. If you want to understand what string theory looks like these days to good theorists who are working on it, read what “No_More_Strings” has to say.
The suggestion that “string theorists” should stop calling what they do “string theory” is an excellent one. … If you didn’t have to start every grant application by explaining that you’re motivated by “our best hope for a theory of everything”, you might find it easier to work on something quite different, with no relation at all to quantized strings. More.
In other words, the best multiverse theory going is a bust.
But don’t expect that to make any difference when pop culture needs the multiverse so badly.
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“our best hope for a theory of everything” will never be a mathematical theory of everything. Godel proved as much in his incompleteness theorem:
Even Hawking himself at one time admitted, and apparently subsequently forgot, that, due to Godel’s Incompleteness, there can never be a ‘complete’ mathematical theory of everything,
In my honest opinion, “our best hope for a theory of everything” will be when physicists finally realize that a profound mistake has been made in physics. That profound mistake has been the removal of agent causality from physics.
The presupposition of agent causality, i.e. God, behind the mathematical laws of the universe was presupposed by the Christian founders of modern science when they first started to discover some of the mathematical laws of the universe.
In fact, on discovering the laws of planetary motion, Johann Kepler declared these very ‘unscientific’ thoughts:
Kepler was hardly alone in belief of God being behind the mathematical laws of the universe. Galileo stated:
Newton stated:
Both Faraday and Maxwell presupposed God as a causal agent behind the mathematical laws of their scientific discoveries:
Yet, although God was presupposed to be behind the laws of nature at the founding of modern science, somehow God is now, without us ever being told, or shown, exactly why, somehow considered to be unscientific as a causal explanation for the mathematical laws of the universe. This is tragic since, with the denial of free will, it leads to the epistemological failure of science.
Professor Budziszewski puts the epistemological failure that results for denying agent causality like this:
In other words, the denial of agent causality for ourselves leads to epistemological failure of science since it undermines our ability to be rational agents instead of mindless automatons.
Quantum Mechanics is absolutely screaming for agent causality to be let back in physics. For instance, in regards to free will, in the following experiment, the claim that past material states determine future conscious choices (determinism) is directly falsified by the fact that present conscious choices are, in fact, effecting past material states:
In other words, if my conscious choices really are just merely the result of whatever state the material particles in my brain happen to be in in the past (deterministic) how in blue blazes are my choices instantaneously effecting the state of material particles into the past? The preceding experiment, and other like it in quantum mechanics, are simply impossible for any coherent materialistic presupposition!
And when we rightly let agent causality, God, back into physics, as the Christian founders of modern science originally held, then a empirically backed resolution between Quantum Theory and Relativity is achieved in the resurrection of Christ from death:
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-548425
Verse:
Thus “our best hope for a theory of everything” will never be a mathematical theory of everything, but “our best hope” has been and will always be in Christ and in Christ alone!
In Christ Alone..Passion 2013 – music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRFumI2ch0
Gluons are fine tuned. Disturbing fact to many yikes. But Supersymmetry, (SUSY), consistent with and predicted by String Theory, predicts “gluinos” that offset the fine tuned gluons.
So, fine tuned gluons + perfectly opposite gluinos = no fine tuning?
What? Seems to be “double fine tuned” to me. Ying and Yang, Reap what you sow.
Gluinos are one of a plethora of “Super Partners” predicted by SUSY/String. LHC Run 2 is now underway and “gluinos” are the favored candidate to show up first. Lots of fingers crossed:) Seriously exciting times in high energy physics.
OT: Biologist in TEDx Talk: Life’s “Complex Interacting Molecular Machines” Appear “Built by an Engineer” – Casey Luskin – June 10, 2015
Excerpt: when I look through a microscope at a humble bacterium — ,,,
On the one hand it’s extremely well organized, but on the other hand the sheer scale of all of this unfamiliar well-organized stuff that happens in there makes me feel that I’ve stumbled onto an alternate landscape of technology that’s built by an engineer a million times smarter than me.
– Stephen Larson – “Digital biology and open science — the coming revolution,,,
I (Casey Luskin) highly recommend watching the talk in full.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....96761.html