{"id":9409,"date":"2017-07-06T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2017-07-06T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:55:13","slug":"last-weeks-hype-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9409","title":{"rendered":"Last Week&#8217;s Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now back from vacation, more regular blogging should resume imminently.  While away, lots of press stories about claims that LIGO could be used to get &#8220;evidence for string theory&#8221;.  As usual, these things can be traced back to misleading statements in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1704.07392\">paper<\/a> and the associated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.mpg.de\/2070241\/hints-of-extra-dimensions-in-gravitational-waves\">university press release<\/a>.   In this case, there had already been an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431244-200-gravitational-waves-could-show-hints-of-extra-dimensions\/\">initial round of hype<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/can-we-use-gravitational-waves-to-rule.html\">debunked by Sabine Hossenfelder<\/a>.  The new round seems to have been generated by the June 28 press release.  The Guardian has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jul\/05\/gravitational-waves-string-theory\"> a version of this<\/a>, but at least there the author found someone to make the obvious point, that this is irrelevant to string theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now back from vacation, more regular blogging should resume imminently. While away, lots of press stories about claims that LIGO could be used to get &#8220;evidence for string theory&#8221;. As usual, these things can be traced back to misleading statements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9409\">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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-hype"],"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\/9409","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=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}