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Old 07-04-2010, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
The original ideas were thought of as being crackpot (=hard to understand and beyond orthodox)...although if you listen to a lot of physicists, they still think String Theory is left of centre

But that could be said for most theories.
Crackpot theories by definition are logically inconsistent and doesn't reflect on the complexity and/or unorthodoxy of the theory.
Perhaps the term "revolutionary" is more apt.

BTW welcome back.
Where have you been?

Steven
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