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The response to the failures over the last forty years seems to be that current researchers should not be held accountable for ways in which the string theory paradigm of the past has not worked out.
Wolfgang Pauli’s remark “Das is nicht einmal falsch” (“That is not even wrong”) was made not as a comment on a seminar talk but as a reaction to a paper by a young theoretician, on which a colleague (I believe it was Sam Goudsmit) had invited Pauli’s opinion.
Since 2004 I've maintained an active blog called Not Even Wrong, which deals with topics in physics and mathematics. It now (Oct. 2022) contains about 1890 postings that may be of some sort of interest. There's a huge pdf of the whole thing here.
Susskind: String Theory is Not the Theory of the Real World Posted on August 7, 2024 by woit Lawrence Krauss has just put up a long interview with Lenny Susskind.
Quite recently, a friend showed him the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli’s views. Pauli remarked sadly ‘It is not even wrong.’ The Peierls article is in. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 5 (Feb. 1960), 174-192. It is on-line via JSTOR.
Unlike other unification proposals, this does not introduce new, very different degrees of freedom, but just involves considering the Standard Model and a chiral formulation of gravity on the Euclidean twistor space.
The main reason for this is that the problem of just finding a quantum theory of gravity comes with the danger that even if you find one, you will have no way of knowing whether it has anything to do with reality.
I was reading Not Even Wrong the book when I was a graduate physics (HEP-TH) student; the university librarian had gotten it surprisingly. 6 years later I left the field with 2 MSc (in my country and the US).
This month’s American Scientist has a review entitled All Strung Out? of The Trouble With Physics and Not Even Wrong by prominent string theorist Joe Polchinski, and he has posted a slightly edited version of the review with some explanatory …
But, in the spirit of being not even wrong, here is a test: Jay Armas has edited a collection of “Conversations on quantum gravity” including researchers of diverse points of view.