[FRIAM] Unstrung

[phil henshaw]

So I picked up last week's New Yorker to find one of it's thorough and
insightful articles of the same name, in this case by Jim Holt on the
demise of string theory, and the books by Smolin and Woit.  What caught
my attention was the apparent fact that what caused string theory to
suddenly take over all of theoretical physics is that physics has run
out of data!    Apparently everything they've thought of trying to
explain has been, except for a few decimal places and things like
cosmology, so the physicists went off on a wild tear that, having
nothing to explain, lead nowhere.
 
I was sort of thinking, if there's a data shortage, maybe they could
look at all the good data we've been tossing in the trash for centuries,
the data tails clipped off and disposed of in the process of
approximating the regular processes we found.   Those 'tails' contain
all the evidence we have of the beginnings and endings of things, all
the unstable and connecting processes.    Is it limitless?   I don't
know, but it seems like a door to nature's deep thought.   At the very
least they expose how nature doesn't conceive of things 'bling bling
bling' like we do, but exhaustively completes every last elaborate step.
Figuring that out seems like it could last us a good long while.
 

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