On the Conflicting Assessments of the Current Status of String Theory.
The current status of string theory is assessed quite differently by most of the theory's exponents than by the majority of physicists in other fields. While the former tend to have a high degree of trust in string theory's viability, the latter largely share a substantially more skeptical point of...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 5; pp. 984 - 997 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2009
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