"Is our universe fundamentally a mess, or is there some simple and natural structure that all this could emerge from, or be parts of? One approach to answering these questions is String Theory (or, more generally, M-Theory), but string unification models have grown excessively in complexity while producing zero predictive progress. After several decades of extensive theoretical exploration leading nowhere, it is time to consider that the string program may have been a wrong turn. If we backtrack, imagining String Theory never happened, we can go in a new direction, building on the success of Grand Unified Theories and recent progress in Loop Quantum Gravity. The structures of GUTs and LQG rely heavily on Lie groups and are remarkably compatible. By considering the known Lie groups and fields of physics as parts of a larger geometric whole, we move towards Lie group unification."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
People from Los AngelesPhysicists from the United StatesPeople from San DiegoUniversity of California, Los Angeles alumni
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Antony Garrett Lisi
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Antony Garrett Lisi →
Related Quotes
"I think that, without experimental checks, physics can — and has — gone off the rails ... experiment has to be the ul…"
"For almost a decade, Lisi moved on no fixed schedule between Maui, where he likes to surf, and the mountains of the W…"
"Back then, he admits, his theory still had some shortcomings; for example the three generations of fermions didn't qu…"
"Welcome to the shock event, designed precisely to jar the and civil society, causing a disorientation and disruption …"
"I happened to see a video of... presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally. I saw him rouse the crowd to perform …"
"We're living in a time of intense of these past regimes... including to remove their violence, so... Putin erects sta…"
"[F]or 100 years authoritarian leaders have invested in propaganda to convince people to believe their lies, to partic…"
"We must... enact measures that reflect and reinforce the bedrock democratic principles of transparency, accountabilit…"
"People have to have circumstances that... they can't deny any more. ...[S]ometimes it takes a lot, like in the 1930a …"
"Trump wasn't just in office to wreck American democracy. He... was there to... detach America from a democratic world…"