Edward Witten Epic Reply 🤣 Destroys String Theory Dissenters

Video Credit @CloserToTruthTV

[btodywb]

We need the JRE Eric Weinstein and Ed Witten Episode.

[aintgonnahappen]

He didn't destroy jack squat. He said if people have a better theory, then present it. That destroys dissenters now, eh....

[LTDANMAN]

this man would made a fantastic super villian

[realschool]

The question he was asked was the wrong question.

The problem isn't the exploration of the theory.

The problem is the near monopoly on funding the theory holds, and the dismissal of a unified field theory based on the existence of string theory.

[niohnewold]

I was eagerly anticipating the destroying part, but it never happened. This is an embarrassing title for a video regarding an intellectual and academic topic in the natural sciences. I have also noticed there appears to be a concerted effort by some people to present this man as the genius mind of our time. I hope they’re right, and he can further science like the great minds of the past.

[ajaykumarvaidhyanathan]

I have noticed people confronting Edward Witten in many forums. He is sincere on the stand of String theory. For any scientific discovery, one should not have bias. He is open and practical about where the theory stands. It would be good to go from his last comment to understand this better. No one has come up with an alternate theory that is appealing. Just contesting String theory based on individual notions comes from the personal bias of the individual insight based on their comtemplation of physics. He is clear that this theory needs to be better established.

[chappy]

He admits they haven't figured anything out in 70 years, than tries to make a little dig at the end by saying the dissenters haven't come up with a competing idea. Maybe if his folly hadn't sucked up generations of the brightest minds in physics we would have another idea.

[Ken-vlwk]

String theory has big problems and he cleverly did not mention those.

[matteogirelli]

0:30 He said it himself. It's a long term SPECULATIVE enterprise.

[sergeysmyshlyaev]

String Theory is not a well established physical theory, in fact it's not even one physical theory, it's a framework. A framework for gaming the scientific publication system and building a career in today's scientific community.

[worker-wfem]

Current ST need 10 dimensions to work, some even more. That’s right kids, this brilliant ‘theory’ exists only as highly abstract mathematical models in the minds of string theorists. An unfalsifiable theory of strings based upon the arbitrary existence of unfalsifiable higher dimensions. This isn’t physics. C’mon.

[maxpain]

String theory is not a theory, more a hypothesis/speculation. I am sorry string theory fans but the emperor wears no clothes.

[HebFiveNine]

Has any of the problems they've spent a lifetime working on fed a homeless person?

[trounbyfire]

Witten is an actual genius...and he can do math...

[scipioafricanus]

he destroyed nobody and failed to refute the critiques of string theory.

[crazieeez]

I remembered when a teacher asked me what 2+2 is. I told her the best answer is 9-5. You can have an infinite number of theories to satisfy merging of qm and gr, mathematically.

[Rasheed]

Eric Weinstein shouldn’t be afraid of this guy.

[pietropaolofrisoni]

Maybe at 0:23, he should have specified that "String theory is ONE OF the frameworks in which humans have been able to imagine how QM and gravity can work together consistently."

[tbarnes]

The absence of an alternative does not prove the theory. Other than sucking up brainpower and funding, how does it unify quantum mechanics and gravity? Isn’t that the whole point?

[MarkTill-vtku]

string theory has not discovered a manner in which grrvity and quantum mechanics can work together . String theory is a paradigm that appears to simply invoke the unobservable and untestable to sidestep any problems it encounters. The maths may be beautiful but it is meaningless if it is an avenue to one again sidestep any problems it encounters.
the point he makes about competing theories is a little trite insofar as for the last thirty years string theory has consumed very nearly all the available resources for work on the foundations of QM.