{"id":692,"date":"2006-10-09T10:31:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/09\/string-theory-backlash-backlas\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T10:31:54","slug":"string-theory-backlash-backlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/09\/string-theory-backlash-backlas\/","title":{"rendered":"(String Theory Backlash) Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I recently finished <cite>The Trouble With Physics<\/cite> (initial comment <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/physics_contains_multitudes.php\">here<\/a>, full review forthcoming) and I read <cite>Not Even Wrong<\/cite> a little while ago (review <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/peter_woit_not_even_wrong.php\">here<\/a>). I suppose I could dig up Lawrence Krauss&#8217;s book, and go for the String Theory Backlash trifecta, but I could also hit myself in the head with a brick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My first inclination is to not read anything more about string theory for a good long while, but that seems a little unfair. Given that I&#8217;ve read a pair of anti-string books, the responsible thing to do would probably be to read something pro-string, to see how the other side views the same history.The question is, what should I read?<\/p>\n<p>So, um, what should I read? Ideally this would be something broadly similar to Woit and Smolin, in that it should provide a good historical summary of the development of string theory, from the pro-string perspective, and a coherent argument about how it&#8217;s the coolest thing since sliced bread. Ideally, it would also be written by someone who isn&#8217;t barking mad.<\/p>\n<p>So, what would that book be? I&#8217;ve got an unread copy of <cite>The Elegant Universe<\/cite> kicking around somewhere&#8211; is that the book I&#8217;m looking for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I recently finished The Trouble With Physics (initial comment here, full review forthcoming) and I read Not Even Wrong a little while ago (review here). I suppose I could dig up Lawrence Krauss&#8217;s book, and go for the String Theory Backlash trifecta, but I could also hit myself in the head with a brick&#8230;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/09\/string-theory-backlash-backlas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(String Theory Backlash) Backlash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}