The idea that progress is stalled because everyone is hypnotized by string theory, I think is simply false, and I say that despite having studied alternative theories of physics, much much more than the typical person who knows some string theory.
Are you saying that progress in physics hasn’t stalled or that string theory isn’t to blame?
I’m not Mitchell, but I think I agree with him here enough to guess: He probably means to say that production of new plausible theories has increased, production of experimentally verified theories has stalled, and the latter is not string theory’s fault.
(And of course this whole discussion, including your question, is interpreting “physics” to means “fundamental physics”, since theoretical and empirical work on e.g. condensed matter physics has been doing just fine.)
Are you saying that progress in physics hasn’t stalled or that string theory isn’t to blame?
I’m not Mitchell, but I think I agree with him here enough to guess: He probably means to say that production of new plausible theories has increased, production of experimentally verified theories has stalled, and the latter is not string theory’s fault.
(And of course this whole discussion, including your question, is interpreting “physics” to means “fundamental physics”, since theoretical and empirical work on e.g. condensed matter physics has been doing just fine.)