{"id":12472,"date":"2021-09-08T18:45:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12472"},"modified":"2021-09-08T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:47:08","slug":"this-weeks-hype-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12472","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Quanta has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/one-labs-quest-to-build-space-time-out-of-quantum-particles-20210907\/\">One Lab\u2019s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles<\/a>.   No, this kind of experiment is not going to &#8220;Build Space-Time&#8221;, now or ever. This kind of obfuscation about quantum gravity advances neither fundamental physics nor the public understanding of it, quite the opposite. The article does make clear what the motivation is: deal with the problem that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>String theory, still the leading candidate to replace the Standard Model, has often been accused of being untestable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>by claiming that it somehow can be tested in a lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Quanta has One Lab\u2019s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles. No, this kind of experiment is not going to &#8220;Build Space-Time&#8221;, now or ever. This kind of obfuscation about quantum gravity advances neither fundamental physics nor the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12472\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12475,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}