Reply #183: Check out Peter Woit's blog, "Not Even Wrong."

[Mike03]

Woit is the author of an excellent anti-String Theory book called "Not Even Wrong" and has operated a website by that name for several (three/four?) years.

He is the first person thanked in the acknowledgements portion of Lisi's paper, so Woit apparently gave Lisi some guidance of some sort on this theory. Woit is a nice guy, and the fact that he helped him may not mean that he agrees entirely with the suppositions of the theory.

Woit is a mathematician who I believe specializes in topology, but he did devote years to String Theory and has an excellent reputation.

He is one of a number of physicists who are discussing the merits of this paper on blogs.

The state of physics is such that it would not surprise me terribly if a better idea did come entirely out of left field at this point. There is a myopia in physics now fixated on String, M Theory and Membranes. There are other theories that show promise, but they are being drowned out by the String Mania.