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๐Ÿงต String theory: has it made any predictions?

Anonymous No. 16251265

Is it dead? Was it any useful in the years it was active? If there were string theorists, were there any experimentalists? It feels like string theory faded into the rear view mirror bros

Anonymous No. 16251410

It's not a theory in the first place.

Anonymous No. 16251413

>>16251265
String theory doesn't produce any falsifiable hypotheses, so it isn't science

Anonymous No. 16251498

>>16251413
I think you meant to say climate """"science"""""

Anonymous No. 16251515

>>16251265
This reminds me that I need to get my gf sluttier underwear

Anonymous No. 16251519

>>16251413
What would you qualify it then? Why did it even see the day? I mean, there are a bunch of reputable physicists that spent years on it, most notably Susskind. Surely there's something useful about it.

Anonymous No. 16251526

>>16251519
Many physicists have become so obsessed about models that they have forgotten about hypothesis testing and experimenting. Model is always a simplified version of reality, but for many physicists, models have become reality.

String theorists have delved too deep into theorycrafting. They have created a framework that has "perfect" inner logic in it, but it can not be verified by any experimentalist because it has no surface to reality.

Anonymous No. 16251571

>>16251265
>It feels like string theory faded into the rear view mirror bros
We don't have the technological capability to test anything that small.
So it'll have to wait until that catches up.
>Bro just give us $50 Billion more for a more larger particle collider bro
The money would be better spent on space or fusion reaction development.

Anonymous No. 16251775

>>16251498
>I think you meant to say climate """"science"""""
we will know in 5 years if they're right or not. the world should end by then.

Anonymous No. 16251879

>>16251571
>The money would be better spent on space or fusion reaction development.
Umm, what about the under-privileged migrant families and the trans community?

Anonymous No. 16252230

>>16251413
Who says science has to be falsifiable? It's an arbitrary rule set by some oldass retard.

Anonymous No. 16252243

>>16252230
If you don't test any hypotheses, what are you doing as a scientist? Just fucking around?

Anonymous No. 16252248

>>16251519
It's not intrinsically untestable. The necessary energies are simply extremely high. Somebody could find a weird trick, so to speak.

Anonymous No. 16252559

>>16252243
Testable is different from falsifiable.

Anonymous No. 16252742

It's all bullshit.

Anonymous No. 16253572

>>16252559
You test whether data supports a hypothesis or contradicts it, i.e. falsifies it.

Anonymous No. 16253986

>>16253572
>>16252559
There is no such thing as falsifiable though. Everything that has yet to be falsified may be falsified in the future. That's why people care about testing and not the le heckin truth