{"id":575,"date":"2007-07-14T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=575"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T15:43:54","slug":"carroll-and-johnson-on-bloggingheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Carroll and Johnson on Bloggingheads"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting exchange today between Sean Carroll and George Johnson on bloggingheads.tv<\/a>. They cover a range of topics, including the controversy over string theory and the role of blogs. Johnson describes his time last fall at the KITP, telling about drinking very expensive Scotch with Steve Shenker, and many discussions with the string theorists there who were concerned that they were getting bad publicity and didn’t know what to do about it. Some were concerned that Lubos Motl was not exactly representing them well.<\/p>\n

Sean gives a fairly standard defense of the landscape (“maybe it really is the way the world works”), with no discussion of the main problem with the landscape, that it shows no signs of making falsifiable predictions that would make it legitimate science. Some other points of the discussion include speculation about “what if Feynman and Gell-Mann had blogs?”, and Sean’s analogy of the string\/LQG debate with mainstream\/”heterodox” academic economics.<\/p>\n


\nUpdate<\/strong>: Sean has his own posting<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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