I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.
I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
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