{"id":2998,"date":"2010-06-09T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:07:32","slug":"not-in-our-lifetimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Not In Our Lifetimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/06\/09\/world-science-festival-untangling-string-theory\/\">report<\/a> from one of last Saturday&#8217;s events at the World Science Festival has string theorists Brian Greene and Shamit Kachru admitting that they&#8217;d be surprised to see experimental evidence for string theory in their lifetimes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Hockenberry, the panel\u2019s moderator, asked Greene if he thought experimental evidence would come during his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be surprised,\u201d said Greene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in your lifetime?\u201d Hockenberry asked Kachru.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I\u2019d be surprised,\u201d conceded the young physicist reluctantly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more reports about the same panel discussion, see <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/exploring_hidden_dimensions_at.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2010\/06\/whats-next-string-theory-test-or-data-saying-dont-bother.ars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from one of last Saturday&#8217;s events at the World Science Festival has string theorists Brian Greene and Shamit Kachru admitting that they&#8217;d be surprised to see experimental evidence for string theory in their lifetimes: John Hockenberry, the panel\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2998\">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-2998","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\/2998","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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}