Socrates – Classical Greek Athenian philosopher (c. 470 – 399 BC).Wronger than wrong – Informal concept in philosophy of science Review of The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin (Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, 26.00, September, 2006) and Not Even Wrong String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit (Basic Books, 304 pages, 26.00, September, 2006) Reviewed by Dr. The study of quantum gravity, inflation, black hole information, and string theory, suffers from the absence of well defined mathematical models, which define the theory in asymptotically flat or de Sitter space in a non-perturbative manner.Logical positivism – Movement in Western philosophy.It describes remarks by David Gross at the recent Solvay conference in Brussels, mentioned here earlier. Karl Popper – Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902–1994) The latest issue of New Scientist has an article entitled Nobel Laureate Admits String Theory is in Trouble.Cargo cult science – Form of pseudoscience The implied idea that once we get rid of string theory things will become easier and better is not only bogus but dangerous (not that I would attribute such a view to Peter).He also quotes another example when Pauli replied to Lev Landau, "What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not." See also Its easy to pick on string theory - there are too many versions and. ' theres only so much we can even possibly observe from our vantage points in spacetime in an imperfect biological computer. The author, a theoretical physics professor at the University of Oxford and a leading string theorist, explains what string theory is and where it originated. In fact the whole edifice of modern physics is wrong. Why String Theory provides the answer, offering a highly readable and accessible panorama of the who, what, and why of this large aspect of modern theoretical physics. String theory is not a scientific theory, it is not even wrong, because it does not make any testable predictions. Pauli remarked sadly, 'It is not even wrong'." This is also often quoted as "That is not only not right it is not even wrong", or in Pauli's native German, " Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig es ist nicht einmal falsch!" Peierls remarks that quite a few apocryphal stories of this kind have been circulated and mentions that he listed only the ones personally vouched for by him. Roger Penrose: Not only is String Theory is wrong. According to the major line of criticism of string theory, this is impossible. Rudolf Peierls documents an instance in which "a friend showed Pauli the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli's views.
The phrase is generally attributed to the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or careless thinking.