{"id":183459,"date":"2024-02-23T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/why-string-theory-has-been-unfairly-maligned"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:26:47","slug":"why-string-theory-has-been-unfairly-maligned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/why-string-theory-has-been-unfairly-maligned","title":{"rendered":"Why string theory has been unfairly maligned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-string-theory-has-been-unfairly-maligned2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it thanks to ancient particles called moduli, which might appear in astronomical observations, says theorist Joseph Conlon.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/thomas-lewton\/\" class=\"\">Thomas Lewton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it thanks to ancient particles called moduli, which might appear in astronomical observations, says theorist Joseph Conlon. By Thomas Lewton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}