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"So what will you do if string theory is wrong?"

Popular Physics 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

I briefly discuss the accomplishments of string theory that would survive a complete falsification of the theory as a model of nature and argue the possibility that such a survival may necessarily mean that string theory would become its own discipline, independently of both physics and mathematics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0805.0543,
  title  = {"So what will you do if string theory is wrong?"},
  author = {Moataz H. Emam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0543},
  year   = {2008}
}
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