String 'em up!

Peter Woit has a post Game Over on the End of String Theory. He and his commentators are pretty sure the beast is dead, now if they can only manage to pound that stake...

My reaction: Well maybe. A long time ago in a galaxy on a 3-brane remarkably resembling this one, I was a student in a department where quantum field theory was considered dead, dead, dead. Even my QFT prof, a former student of Chew, could hardly be bothered with teaching us such an obsolete subject, and dull student that I was, I didn't learn much. Before I graduated, t'Hooft et. al. had showed this view to be wrong, wrong, wrong, and the revolution was in full swing.

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