String theory fails (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, January 07, 2013, 19:40 (4128 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: String theory is an attempt to combine Einstein's relativity, which works on large objects, with quantum mechanics, which works on tiny objects, but has failed to do so for over 25 years. Quantum loop gravity has also not worked to combine the two theories. Will we ever get a combination equation to bring the two together. Perhaps we are not meant to get there!? -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHz4mB9GKY--What a wonderful little video! I played it through twice so that I could note some of the gems:-"We know what a singularity is. A singularity is when we don't know what to do."-"The collapse of physics as we know it."-"Nature is smarter than we are."-"We don't understand."-And best of all, the stunning conclusion: "Quantum gravity is the name that we give to the solution to this problem. We don't really know what quantum gravity is." 
Substitute "god" for quantum gravity, and we can all dance together in the dark.