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| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:17 | comment | added | JMac | @melp I don't know how you could remotely go about proving that it would require a genius of the order of magnitude that comes around once in several generations. Science is rarely if ever resting on any individuals ideas alone. It also requires enough research to be done in a field to have enough background information to reach those conclusions. Again, this also seems to suggest that string theory could not be proven physically, which depending on what you mean, doesn't make a lot of sense. This asserts a lot of things about how difficult it is without any real support. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | I don’t think this post attempts to explain string theory either. This is a pity as indeed this is a good question. The linked paper appears relevants so maybe there’s a way to shorten its 18 pages to make this answer self contained. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | melp | The question is 3 parts 1. explain string theory “specially interested” on 2. how plausible is it -plausible and 3. what is needed to successfully prove it? Be a genius that comes around 1 in several generations. That is the order of magnitude of effort required. I should say: if you are not familiar with everything in my listed paper, you would need to know all of that from classical physics , to quantum, to QFT, to super Riemann, to Calibri-Yau space , and much much more, far beyond my understanding toward the very edge of research in pure mathematics. | |
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | JMac | This doesn't attempt to explain string theory at all, it just talks about the difficulties of it (which seems to be suggesting that we cannot test string theory, which AFAIK there would be testable hypothesis from string theory). | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 13:41 | history | answered | melp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |