{"id":37,"date":"2004-06-12T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-06-12T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T12:50:38","slug":"cosmic-string-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic String Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2004-06\/uocs-ndt061004.php\">press release<\/A> from UCSB, three theoretical physicists have proposed &#8220;the most viable test to date for determining whether string theory is on the right track&#8221;.  This is based on a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0312067\">paper<\/A> about cosmic strings where the authors manage to cook up a highly unlikely scenario where large strings exist and produce gravitational radiation observable by LIGO in the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Normally in the English language, calling something a &#8220;test&#8221; of a scientific theory would indicate that if it doesn&#8217;t work the theory is wrong. When LIGO doesn&#8217;t see this effect in the next two years I kind of doubt that there will be wholesale abandonment of string theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release from UCSB, three theoretical physicists have proposed &#8220;the most viable test to date for determining whether string theory is on the right track&#8221;. This is based on a paper about cosmic strings where the authors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=37\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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-37","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\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}