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pizzaface1294 karma

I recommend reading Smolin's The Trouble With Physics for specific answers to your questions. In short, string theory gets too much attention and too much funding for the misnamed set of unsupported hypotheses that it is.

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What is your stance on what Edward Snowden did?

pizzaface121 karma

Hi Sean, I love your books! Thanks for being a physicist who uses his speaking abilities to promote science and for debate.

You've made the argument multiple times that there is almost certainly no life after death, astrology is bogus, ghosts aren't real, etc. based on the ability to rotate Feynman diagrams, which shows that we do not interact with any new particles because we cannot create these new particles, and based on references to this Eot-Wash paper, which shows that there are almost certainly no new forces on the length and energy scale of life on Earth. However, the Eot-Wash group explored only 1/r2 interactions. Are there any other non-1/r2 interaction terms that could be included in a beyond the standard model Lagrangian that weren't searched for?

I'm not some astrology-believer trying to prove you wrong, I just don't have enough QFT under my belt to answer this question.