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The dangerous irrelevance of string theory
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2017
arXiv
pre-print
We comment on the relation between string theory and empirical science, grounding our discussion in cosmology, a subject with increasingly precise data in which this connection operates at several levels. It is important to take into account the phenomenon of dangerous irrelevance: over long times or large field ranges, physics can become sensitive to higher scales than the input energies. This pertains in inflationary cosmology (and possibly other aspects of horizon physics). String theory
arXiv:1706.02790v1
fatcat:e7keqc6wc5ehjhsfweoafz3k3e