Progress remains a pipe dream (Image: Peter Ginter/Getty)
IT WAS, in many ways, a declaration of war. A group of physicists has launched a rearguard action to restore experimental data to what they see as its rightful place, back on their subject’s throne.
Last week, the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, hosted its inaugural Convergence conference at the same time as Strings 2015, the world’s largest string theory conference, was taking place in Bangalore, India. The timing wasn’t entirely accidental, says Perimeter director Neil Turok. Although string theory attempts to describe the universe in one theoretical framework, it…
