Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Is string theory a failing model? | Eric Weinstein and Brian Greene go head to head again" video.

String theory is suspect on behavioural grounds: the proposition is transparently the stoo-pid "We've got a whole lot of pesky infinities here in current physics, but there's an easy fix. We'll just say they're all little itsy-bitsies. Since the most studied phenomenon in all of science is the normal curve, we'll just say they vibrate sinusoidally, a priori." Presto: string theory. No evidence needed. 'Sobvious. That's the way human beings behave. It's just one more sad little manifestation of the Second Law. It's not the worst thing in the world. I have a nomination for that. At the wavelengths of television, Earth is probably a bright star in the Universe. That means that if there's anybody out there watching us, we serve the increase of entropy as a group by turning energetic Sunlight into "I Love Lucy." The theory itself isn't "failing." It never got off the ground in the first place. The first day out they started adding epicycles: the strings became circles and vibrated and new sorts of math were added -- not to account for observations but to paper over weaknesses and nonsense in the previous day's iteration. I think the main thing here is that the end of the cold war left a whole lot of atom-bomb mediocrities out of work, so pseudo-epistemology of this sort was dreamed up as make-work for the poor dears.
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