https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1208.1030/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798681urn:hackerpapers:mention:1208.1030:22798681Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:54:43 GMT<p>&gt;The decades old battle in theoretical physics over bragging rights between the &quot;string&quot; and &quot;loop&quot; camps would seem to be an even more significant example within the hard sciences of a collaborative intra-promotion rivalry given the apparent failure of both groups to produce a quantum theory of gravity. In string theory we quantize gravity by attaching voodoo parameters to particles, and manipulating those parameters so that they forbid the gravitational ultraviolet catastrophe. In LQG or NQFT we attach voodoo parameters to spacetime, forbidding tiny singularities. We can also attach voodoo…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1208.1030/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-ph