Not so strung out!

Amidst all the media attention and all the bashing string theory has been getting lately this is a refreshing view of the current landscape of theoretical physics. A.J usually writes pretty interesting stuff on his blog and interestingly enough his textbook recommendations come up as the third result on a google search for 'undergraduate arrogance'!

Let my own ignorance and undergraduate arrogance speak, though: I do think that string theory gets a bit too much attention (and funding?) and other approaches to quantum gravity and unification do not. Many a time have I read about it being very difficult and risky to go against the main-stream current in theoretical physics. That has to be a bad. All the theoretical revolutions came out of people not going with the current!

And speaking of currents, I better go grade these analog labs.