{"id":1885,"date":"2009-04-20T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2009-04-21T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:19:01","slug":"quantum-tunnelling-of-a-new-third-kind-could-finally-put-string-theory-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Quantum tunnelling of a new, third kind could finally put string theory to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole &#8220;finally, a way is found to test string theory&#8221; business is starting to become a complete joke.  See the latest such nonsense:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/23409\/\">Quantum tunnelling of a new, third kind could finally put string theory to the test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>which is based on this <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0904.0609\">preprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: I&#8217;ll be traveling this week, first to Edinburgh, where a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icms.org.uk\/workshop.php?id=68\">celebration<\/a> of Sir Michael Atiyah&#8217;s 80th birthday is going on, then stopping in Dublin on the way back to New York.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: As usual, Slashdot can be relied upon to <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/04\/21\/045243\">promote<\/a> the latest &#8220;predictions from string theory&#8221; hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole &#8220;finally, a way is found to test string theory&#8221; business is starting to become a complete joke. See the latest such nonsense: Quantum tunnelling of a new, third kind could finally put string theory to the test which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1885\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","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\/1885","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=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}