It has been a few years since his book came out and I have been wondering if he holds the same view. In short, he does. He just posted a list of his “This Week’s Hype” posts for 2011. Here is a bit:

When talking to journalists, string theorists are rarely willing to admit that the hopes of the past couple decades that string theory would make some predictions about LHC energy scale physics turned out to be a dismal failure, and this tends to lead to confused headlines. Besides the LHC though, there’s a huge on-going effort to promote other bogus ‘tests of string theory’.

LHC is Large Hadron Collider where they are searching for the Higg’s particle, among other things.

Whenever I talk to anyone about UFT6, I get asked about string theory. I will continue to be able to refer them to this blog.

Update: String theory and UFT6 are competing theories. That said, most people interested in physics have heard of string theory and essentially no one has heard of UFT6. Peter Woit has a much more fully informed view of string theory and its shortcomings than I do. 

My own viewpoint is that string theory is based upon Relativity Theory and Relativity Theory is wrong. Therefore string theory is wrong and there is no point in me pursuing it further.

I am making fair progress in writing up a Crucial Experiment for Special Relativity and UFT6. I hope to finish that in a few weeks and I hope to have a more complete status report on UFT6 after that.

See the About page for a summary of the planned content of this site.

I’m starting with the free Chateau theme on WordPress.com. If I actually write things and anyone actually reads them, I will add the Custom Design upgrade for better control of font size, font color and other details.

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