What Don Lincoln has said about String theory
2 quotes · 1 episode · May 29, 2026
Don Lincoln, Particle physicist at Fermilab, author and science communicator, has been quoted on String theory 2 times in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on May 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Lincoln says he is fairly sure superstring theory is wrong because new phenomena will appear across the vast untested energy range.
“I'm pretty sure super string theory is wrong, not because people aren't smart, but because something new is going to happen”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:32:38
Lincoln thinks string theory is losing researchers because 50 years of work have not solved the problem, not because it has been falsified.
“I don't want to devote my life to something that I might not see progress forward in my lifetime”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:42:37
Episodes
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don LincolnLex Fridman Podcast · May 29, 2026 · 3 h 2 min
Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln talks with Lex Fridman about unification in physics, the Higgs boson, string theory, antimatter, dark energy, and dark matter.
Others on String theory
- Eric Weinstein · 3 quotes
Don Lincoln on other topics
- Dark matter · 3 quotes
- Higgs boson · 3 quotes
- Theory of everything · 3 quotes
- Dark energy · 2 quotes
- Antimatter · 2 quotes
- Baryogenesis · 1 quote
- Loop quantum gravity · 1 quote