A critical look at strings

Abstract

This is an invited contribution to the Special Issue of "Foundations of Physics" titled "Forty Years Of String Theory: Reflecting On the Foundations". I have been asked to assess string theory as an outsider, and to compare it with the theory, methods, and expectations in my own field.

7 pages

References in corpus (2)

• String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years
• Zakopane lectures on loop gravity

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