Someone argues: "The rotating relativistic string gives

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Symmetry and Flavour, Ch The relativistic string: action, light-cone quantisation, spectrum and D-branes

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Someone argues: "The rotating relativistic string gives J=α′E2J = \alpha'E^2, which matches the slope 0.92 GeV−20.92\,\mathrm{GeV^{-2}} fitted to the ρ\rho family exactly, so hadrons must literally be made of one-dimensional strings. Since the quantised closed string necessarily contains a massless spin-two state, the graviton, string theory has therefore been experimentally confirmed as the correct quantum theory of gravity." Find the errors in this reasoning.

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