Why Lee Smolin is an Idiot.

Lee Smolin is the author of what some consider to be a "hot" book, in that it has provided some great debate and mud slinging within the scientific community. Smolin has taken a stance that string theory will not pan out and is pretty much a waste of time in his book, The Trouble with Physics. He has come under fire for giving the impression that he thinks the study of string theory, which is the belief that everything is unified and consistent in this universe, is a pointless task. The truth is, there have been too many breakthroughs in ST to deny that it is a viable possibility. Smolin supports the idea that we should question any theory that we are studying today, which I also completely agree with, but he doesn't really apply it in this case. "I'll believe it when I see it, but not until." What's up, Thomas? Haven't seen you since...sheesh..the BIBLE. If everyone who ever tried to prove anything listened to idiots like Smolin, we'd have nothing. We'd still be living on a flat earth. We'd never have been on the moon. We wouldn't know the joy of Twinkies.

Now, it is one thing to go against something and speak out against it. It is another to speak out and then backtrack after you are fired upon by the subject's supporters. Smolin, sadly, is a great mind, but apparently not a great debater. The book makes some "esoteric" claims that I simply cannot believe aren't just downright derogatory towards ST. The point of his book, he states, is to merely say that String Theory isn't the ONLY answer to the great question of how everything is connected, but just one. Trying to play it down, I believe. Well, that sure isn't how it reads, Mr. Smolin. For someone who's written numerous technical papers, some even on String Theory itself, you seem to need to go back and take a few English classes and learn what some of us call "tone".

He has even stated that some of his closest friends are string theorists. To me, that is a claim similar to a person accused of racism stating they have "lots of black friends".