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So this book is a couple of decades old, and I don't know enough to know if string theory still has the hold over the world of physics it did when this book was written, or if the author's criticisms have been largely addressed, or even at all. Also the first half of the book was dense dense dense and a bit over my head, but he convinced me that string theory is a beautiful framework that is made up and untestable and doesn't seem to match reality very well.
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