{"id":13482,"date":"2023-04-27T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2023-07-15T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T21:38:49","slug":"string-theory-lied-to-us-and-now-science-communication-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13482","title":{"rendered":"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to make up for linking to something featuring Michio Kaku yesterday by today linking to the exact opposite, an insightful explanation of the history of string theory,  discussing the implications of how it was sold to the public.  It&#8217;s by a wonderful young physicist I had never heard of before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acollierastro.com\/\">Angela Collier<\/a>.  She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@acollierastro\">a Youtube channel<\/a>, and her latest video is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E\">string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of going on in detail about the video and what&#8217;s great about it, I&#8217;ll just give you my strongest recommendation that you should go watch it, now.  It&#8217;s as hilarious as it is brilliant, and you have to see for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to make up for linking to something featuring Michio Kaku yesterday by today linking to the exact opposite, an insightful explanation of the history of string theory, discussing the implications of how it was sold to the public. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13482\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/13482","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=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13484,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions\/13484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}