Michio: If someone in the audience can come up with a unified theory of everything, it just has to meet these three criteria...yadda yadda... and if you do come up with that, please tell me first.<p>:-D<p>i feel bad for Sabine because it seems like the moderator keeps pronouncing her name 'Sabina'. maybe that's correct?<p>and i feel bad for Michio b/c Sabine (and Roger) was crushing him and all String Theory. the weird part about what she said is, she's like String Theory is ridiculous, but so is the idea that mathematics has to make sense, and theories have to be testable, but i would say -- how can we have testable theories when math doesn't have to make sense? i've thought of Sabine as a troll - maybe because she does that kind of in your face, 'everyone is stupid but me'-way of speaking. reminds me of the EA crowd.<p>in String Theory's defense, Michio mentioned how Fermilab got some result that does not obey the Standard Model:<p><a href="https://news.fnal.gov/2021/04/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics/" rel="nofollow">https://news.fnal.gov/2021/04/first-results-from-fermilabs-m...</a><p>man, people be hating on string theory.<p>i think of George Saunders quoting Einstein:<p><pre><code> “No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”
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i figure, at a minimum, some wacky theory might open up some lines of thought that might not present themselves otherwise.<p>and i think of the smartest scientists in the world at any given time, shitting all over all the 'stupid' people who believe, say, that the world is round, or that the earth revolves around the sun, etc.<p>chomsky talks about how humans are limited -- thus, able to be creative -- but only up to a certain point:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1hsQWzUKc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1hsQWzUKc</a><p>that's the kind of explanation that makes me think, well, string theory (for one example) might be exactly correct, but we can't even properly conceive of it, much less test it, etc.<p>and Sabine and Roger are like, "ok fine, BUT JUST DON'T CALL IT SCIENCE."<p>ok.