AI Humiliates Spacetime Empire

Cracks In The Opaque Glasshouse of Physics

The choreographies of Laniakea and other superclusters, involving thousands of galaxies, are drawn toward “The Great Attractor” — credit: Nature.

Something’s cooking in the world of physics. In 2006, the American theoretical physicist, Peter Woit, publishes a best-seller, Not Even Wrong. In his book, Woit argues, rather convincingly, that string theorists have gotten carried away. Without experimental evidence for their predictions, string theorists appear to live on a hunch: their…