{"id":2261,"date":"2009-09-02T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2009-09-02T20:41:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:41:42","slug":"string-theory-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"String Theory Skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Forbes magazine has an article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2009\/0921\/opinions-peter-woit-physics-ideas-opinions.html\">String Theory Skeptic<\/a>, which gives me a lot more credit for the problems of string theory than I deserve.<\/p>\n<p>The article as I just saw it online appears to have a minor editing problem, with the quote<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s common in physics for people to have incredibly ambitious ideas that don&#8217;t pan out but lead to rich mathematical ideas that end up being very useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>which is attributed to Peskin in the middle of the article, appearing a second time at the end, right after a quote from me.  In any case, even if Peskin is the one who said it, not me, it&#8217;s something I very much agree with, and perhaps a good summary of the string theory situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  I gather that the Peskin quote is the &#8220;knockout quote&#8221; of the piece, set off and summarizing things, with the online formatting what makes it appear to be in the body, at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Forbes magazine has an article entitled String Theory Skeptic, which gives me a lot more credit for the problems of string theory than I deserve. The article as I just saw it online appears to have a minor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2261\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","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\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}