{"id":39,"date":"2004-06-17T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T00:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2004-06-17T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T00:53:40","slug":"the-stupendous-landscape-of-sting-theory-vacua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"The stupendous Landscape of sting theory vacua"},"content":{"rendered":"

At an early stage in the Los Alamos preprint archive it was split up into hep-th (for more formal or speculative work not directly relevant to experiment) and hep-ph (for “phenomenological” papers directly related to experiment). Susskind has just come out with his latest<\/A> and now seems to feel that his ideas about the “Landscape” are directly of interest to experimenters and so belong in hep-ph.<\/p>\n

The preprint is riddled with typos, for instance the third paragraph starts like this:<\/p>\n

“During the last couple of years an entirely new paradigm has emerged from the ashes of a more traditional view of string theory. The basis of the new paradigm is the stupendous Landscape of sting [sic] theory vacua — especially the non-supersymmetric vacua. These vacua appear to be so numerous that the word Discrtuum<\/I> [sic] is used to describe the spectrum of possible values of the cosmological constant…..”<\/p>\n

You get the idea.<\/p>\n

Some high points of the article:<\/p>\n

1. “low energy supersymmetry – an ugly solution” to the naturalness problem. Now he tells us. From what I remember the “beauty of supersymmetry” has always been one argument made in its favor.<\/p>\n

2. “the ashes of a more traditional view of string theory”. It seems that the picture of the world according to string theory that has been heavily sold for the last twenty years has burned down to the ground.<\/p>\n

3. The argument in his last paper<\/A>, such as it was, was wrong. Now he’s got a new one with a similar conclusion.<\/p>\n

4. “… a prediction that supersymmetry will not be seen at the TEV scale seems warranted”. OK, string theory is finally making a prediction.<\/p>\n

5. “If it turns out that low energy supersymmetry is a feature of TEV physics, then we will have to conclude that other considerations outweigh the counting of vacua on the Landscape”. So, even though string theory predicts no low energy supersymmetry, if it is found it doesn’t mean string theory is wrong. Got it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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