In his recent book Something Deeply Hidden, Sean Carroll writes: but pretty soon physicists thought to themselves, “Hmm, gravity actually exists. Maybe string theory is a quantum theory of gravity?” That turns out to be true, and even better there is a bonus: the theory makes finite predictions for all physical quantities, without needing an… Read more

I believe I may have found a rather major omission in Sean Carroll’s book Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime: It seems that Carroll does not reference the fact that his “Many-Worlds” interpretation is laid to rest by Wigner, Wheeler et. al. on page 294 of Quantum Theory and Measurement (Princeton… Read more