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torrefatto

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    Comment #42016692

    I might understand the excitement for a truly new competitor in the search space, bit this article sounds more like an ad from openAI than something critical and informative.

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    Comment #41450612

    At the cost of starving other research lines in theoretical physics (the thing they told are trying to work on).

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    Comment #41450593

    You are wrong. Particle accelerators have been built since way before any string theory was formulated. The biggest and most powerful existing accelerator (LHC) has been built to f…

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    Comment #41450527

    You are right, the amount of money spent in string theory proposals has been staggering if you take into account the size of the field. For decades competing (or even just non-alig…

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    Comment #41450496

    They produced a family of theories with an infinite amount of underlying possible geometries, and we still don't know if these reduce in the low energy limit to the standard model.…

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    Comment #41447631

    This is the well known litany from string theorists to try and justify the inordinate amount of money threw at them to get back nothing of physical value: no falsifiable prediction…

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    Comment #41377484

    I was going to rant something about open standards and how they did not care to test this toy on Firefox (but they did it test it on safari), but I grew tired.

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    Comment #40949178

    IIRC, there is another quantum number, the chirality. All the neutrinos measured are left chiral. The sterile neutrino, which does not pair with other lepton, is right chiral.

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    Comment #40880119

    I guess the author gets paid by word count. The piece could have been written in one third of the length.

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    Comment #40300350

    You are conflating the whole scientific endeavor to a very specific problem to which this specific approach is effective at producing results that fit with the observable world. Th…

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