{"id":903,"date":"2006-12-10T19:56:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T19:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/10\/string-theory-is-a-bunch-of-cr\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T19:56:25","slug":"string-theory-is-a-bunch-of-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/10\/string-theory-is-a-bunch-of-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"String Theory Is a Bunch of Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, that&#8217;s the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the fact that not one string theory result has been nominated for either the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/call_for_nominations_physics_r.php\">Physics Result of 2006<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/call_for_nominations_astronomy.php\">Astronomy Result of 2006<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, OK, there are other conclusions to draw, such as &#8220;Nobody has nominated any string theory results because nobody has nominated much of anything,&#8221; or &#8220;Nobody has nominated any string theory results because nobody reads your stupid blog anyway, you nihilistic Bush-hating anti-America liberal commie type.&#8221; These might even be in better agreement with the experimental data&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really was hoping for a little more out of those threads, though. I can attempt to compile my own list of big results, but I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s stuff I&#8217;m missing. So, come on, point me to some good recent science, so I have something to read instead of the grant proposals I&#8217;m supposed to be reviewing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, that&#8217;s the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the fact that not one string theory result has been nominated for either the Physics Result of 2006 or the Astronomy Result of 2006&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}