I Keep Trying to Get Out, but They Keep Pulling Me Back In

I'm pretty thoroughly disgusted with the string theory arguments at the moment, so I told myself I wasn't going to say more about the subject. And then, they post a detailed explanation of what strings have to do with RHIC over at Backreaction....

Given my preference for layman-level science blogging over dense technical science blogging, I can't not link to it. If you've wondered what that particular argument is about, but can't make heads or tails of the ArXiV preprints usually offered as explanation, take a look at this post. The English is shaky at points, but that's because the authors aren't native speakers, not because they're not trying.

And that's really the last thing I'm going to say about string theory for the next month or so.

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