{"id":416,"date":"2006-06-19T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2006-06-20T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T15:42:53","slug":"the-string-theory-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"The String Theory Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Cosmic Variance Sean Carroll has a posting about <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/06\/19\/the-string-theory-backlash\/\">The String Theory Backlash<\/a>.  Probably best if anyone who wants to discuss it do so over there, so I&#8217;ll turn off comments here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: More about this <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/sean-carroll-joins-peter-woit.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The posting in the last link (which was an impressive anti-Sean Carroll rant) is now gone, presumably because many of the author&#8217;s colleagues finally realized something had to be done, and wrote in to his blog telling him that he &#8220;must be on crack&#8221;, and had &#8220;completely jumped the shark&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Cosmic Variance Sean Carroll has a posting about The String Theory Backlash. Probably best if anyone who wants to discuss it do so over there, so I&#8217;ll turn off comments here. Update: More about this here. Update: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-even-wrong-the-book"],"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\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}