The Dein Seiberg Problem

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In the 19 eighties, first super string revolution, people whare going around saying like, ye, we're goingto unify everything. But not only has string theory not made any predictions that you can test an accelerator, but once we have the landscape of string theory, we're saying that string theory is compatible with almost any set of particle physics you can have. And at that point, shouldn't you just give up and move on to something else? Soi sera took both sides of this issue, actuay, i should say, in lenny leny suskand has this book called the cosmic landscape. He mentions at some point a paper that i wrote with b

Modern particle physics is a victim of its own success. We have extremely good theories — so good that it’s hard to know exactly how to move beyond them, since they agree with all the experiments. Yet, there are strong indications from theoretical considerations and cosmological data that we need to do better. But the leading contenders, especially supersymmetry, haven’t yet shown up in our experiments, leading some to wonder whether anthropic selection is a better answer. Michael Dine gives us an expert’s survey of the current situation, with pointers to what might come next.

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Michael Dine received his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. He is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his awards are fellowships from the Sloan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, American Physical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Sakurai Prize for theoretical particle physics. His new book is This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist’s Journey to the Edge of Reality.

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