>majority of actuall physicist dont actually believe and its becoming less and less popular every decade in academic circles>pseudointelectuals believe cause it sounds cool and ubdermines traditional western believes so they push it on tv with creates more pseudointelectuals who think their smart for believing it.
>>16966317Everything being fundamentally made of the same stuff is about as "western" as you can get. The ancient Greeks got up to a lot of that shit.But yeah. String theory was always a lightning rod for dorks who prefer elegant math over predictive power.
>>16966325Oh, kinda unrelated, but I really do mean dorks.This has to be one of my favorite images ever. This is our favorite physicists in casual mode.That's Witten there in the middle. He's the guy that gave us M-theory which is the version of string theory everyone recognizes.
>>16966317>majority of actuall physicist dont actually believe and its becoming less and less popular every decade in academic circlesNot really. It was never particularly popular in academic circles. Most physicists don't really know string theory because it's too difficult and not useful to them, and neither believe it nor disbelieve it. In academia it has always been a niche area.>pseudointelectuals believe cause it sounds cool and ubdermines traditional western believes so they push it on tv with creates more pseudointelectuals who think their smart for believing it.Pseudointellectuals like (you) also believe they're smart for thinking string theory is le bad because some faggot like (((Weinstein))) told them so.
