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 +<​blockquote>​„String theorists hoped to uncover a theory of everything that would contain both the standard model and general relativity. But starting in the late 1980s, it became increasingly clear that the theory cannot predict which particles, fields, and parameters we have in the standard model. Instead, string theory gives rise to a whole landscape of possibilities. In this landscape every point corresponds to a different version of the theory with different particles and different parameters and different laws of nature.
 +If one believes that string theory is the final theory, then this lack of predictability is a big problem: it means the theory cannot explain why we observe this particular universe. Hence, to make the final theory claim consistent with the lack of predictability,​ string theorists had to accept that any possible universe in the landscape has the same right to existence as ours. Consequently,​ we live in a multiverse. The string theory landscape conveniently merged with eternal inf“
 +<​cite>​Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder</​cite>​
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 <​blockquote>​I do feel strongly that this is nonsense! … So perhaps I could entertain future historians by saying I think all this superstring stuff is crazy and is in the wrong direction. … I don’t like it that they’re not calculating anything. … why are the masses of the various particles such as quarks what they are? All these numbers … have no explanations in these string theories – absolutely none! … I don’t like that they don’t check their ideas. I don’t like that for anything that disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation—a fix-up to say, “Well, it might be true.” For example, the theory requires ten dimensions. Well, maybe there’s a way of wrapping up six of the dimensions. Yes, that’s all possible mathematically,​ but why not seven? When they write their equation, the equation should decide how many of these things get wrapped up, not the desire to agree with experiment. In other words, there’s no reason whatsoever in superstring theory that it isn’t eight out of the ten dimensions that get wrapped up and that the result is only two dimensions, which would be completely in disagreement with experience. So the fact that it might disagree with experience is very tenuous, it doesn’t produce anything. <​cite>​ Richard Feynman in an <​blockquote>​I do feel strongly that this is nonsense! … So perhaps I could entertain future historians by saying I think all this superstring stuff is crazy and is in the wrong direction. … I don’t like it that they’re not calculating anything. … why are the masses of the various particles such as quarks what they are? All these numbers … have no explanations in these string theories – absolutely none! … I don’t like that they don’t check their ideas. I don’t like that for anything that disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation—a fix-up to say, “Well, it might be true.” For example, the theory requires ten dimensions. Well, maybe there’s a way of wrapping up six of the dimensions. Yes, that’s all possible mathematically,​ but why not seven? When they write their equation, the equation should decide how many of these things get wrapped up, not the desire to agree with experiment. In other words, there’s no reason whatsoever in superstring theory that it isn’t eight out of the ten dimensions that get wrapped up and that the result is only two dimensions, which would be completely in disagreement with experience. So the fact that it might disagree with experience is very tenuous, it doesn’t produce anything. <​cite>​ Richard Feynman in an
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