The key thing about string theory is the word "theory". My first instinct was "that's a load of absolute bollocks". And that's still my instinct today. It's one of a series of supposed grand unifying theories and has only stuck around because there's been little experimental evidence to show how it relates to low-energy physics. As yet, it just doesn't.
But this is the way physics works. It stumbles around for a bit, until the combined progress of independent physicists allows one of them to have a Eureka moment. Newton didn't really make a discovery based on an apple falling from a tree and it wasn't just Einstein sitting in a room, saying, "Oh, I understand it now".
Don't get too caught up in theoretical physics. It's fun but nearly always badly flawed. The latest theory coming our way is that none of us exist corporeally but are projected into ourselves from the edge of the universe.
Is it normal to be addicted to physics theores like quantum mechanics?
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The key thing about string theory is the word "theory". My first instinct was "that's a load of absolute bollocks". And that's still my instinct today. It's one of a series of supposed grand unifying theories and has only stuck around because there's been little experimental evidence to show how it relates to low-energy physics. As yet, it just doesn't.
But this is the way physics works. It stumbles around for a bit, until the combined progress of independent physicists allows one of them to have a Eureka moment. Newton didn't really make a discovery based on an apple falling from a tree and it wasn't just Einstein sitting in a room, saying, "Oh, I understand it now".
Don't get too caught up in theoretical physics. It's fun but nearly always badly flawed. The latest theory coming our way is that none of us exist corporeally but are projected into ourselves from the edge of the universe.
Yeah, okay.