Sabine Hossenfelder | Wrong or Unfalsifiable? String Theory's Biggest Competitor in Trouble @SabineHossenfelder | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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I was recently alerted to a video by my friend and colleague Brian Keating that claims Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), string theory’s biggest competitor, has been disproven. I was somewhat surprised by this because I was pretty convinced it is for all practical purposes untestable -- much like string theory. I had a look at what he is talking about.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.06009?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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I was recently alerted to a video by my friend and colleague Brian Keating that claims Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), string theory’s biggest competitor, has been disproven. I was somewhat surprised by this because I was pretty convinced it is for all practical purposes untestable -- much like string theory. I had a look at what he is talking about.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.06009?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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