News has a short attention span for juicy subjects, much shorter for complex, “boring” subjects. Especially ones that continue to be refined indefinitely. That’s what happened to it. Doesn’t have much to do with what is still happening to it in academia and research.
string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
TL;DW: it never was a good theory and the majority of physicists stopped caring about a long time ago because of that
“To distract me from going into science, I’m gonna play a game while recording [/talking].”
lol wut
Starts to talk physics/specifics anyway…
Interviewer: Physicists, why is string theory dead?
Physicists: It isn’tEnd of article
Eh, the responses are a bit more varied, ranging from “we have very low confidence, because it did not correctly predict several things” to “it’s the best unifying theory we have, by quite a bit”.
In my opinion, worth a read for folks interested in string theory…
And don’t forget the “we’re doing great but we don’t expect to have testable predictions for another 950 years or so” guy.
Non-falsifiability and Brian Greene happened.
That was a disheartening read. Holy fuck.
