I disagree, I think the consensus in the field is that the fundamental laws of physics are very likely some version of string theory or something closely related to it.
I guess it depends on which bubble one is in. The likes of Susskind and ’t Hooft seem to acknowledge that a new paradigm is needed. And it makes sense given the herculean efforts expended on the String Theory in the last 3 decades or so, with very little to show for it. Certainly the AdS/CFT correspondence and the holographic principle in general, as well as a number of other ideas that emerged from the string theory research will have to fit into the new paradigm somewhere, but probably not in any recognizable way. I’d bet 10:1 that the next significant step in fundamental physics would not be a natural extension of the string theory.
I guess it depends on which bubble one is in. The likes of Susskind and ’t Hooft seem to acknowledge that a new paradigm is needed. And it makes sense given the herculean efforts expended on the String Theory in the last 3 decades or so, with very little to show for it. Certainly the AdS/CFT correspondence and the holographic principle in general, as well as a number of other ideas that emerged from the string theory research will have to fit into the new paradigm somewhere, but probably not in any recognizable way. I’d bet 10:1 that the next significant step in fundamental physics would not be a natural extension of the string theory.