I’ve been spending most of my time recently trying to get unconfused about Euclidean spinor fields, will likely write something here about that in the not too distant future. Some other things that may be of interest:<\/p>\n
Musser’s article makes quite a few things clearer, with one striking aspect the news that:<\/p>\n
researchers cut the tether to string theory altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
which I gather means that any foundation in AdS\/CFT is gone, with what is being discussed now purely semi-classical. I don’t understand what these new semi-classical calculations are, and whether optimistic claims that the information paradox is on its way to a solution are justified (history hasn’t been kind to previous such claims). In recent years the pro-string theory research argument has often been that while there no longer were any prospects that it would tell us about particle physics, it was the best route to solving the problem of quantum gravity. It will be interesting to see what the effect will be of that cord getting cut by leading researchers. <\/p>\n
If you think it’s a good idea to follow discussions of this kind of thing on Twitter, you might enjoy threads from Sabine Hossenfelder<\/a> and Ahmed Almeiri<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been spending most of my time recently trying to get unconfused about Euclidean spinor fields, will likely write something here about that in the not too distant future. Some other things that may be of interest: I did an … Continue reading