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This Week’s Hype

Peter Woit · 26 Aug 2026

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    Cumrun Vafa's 'dark dimension' torsion balance experiment does not amount to a genuine testable prediction of string theory.

    Their wordsThis is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.

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