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11-02-2006, 03:42 AM
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String Theory Debunked?
Check out this article in a recent New Yorker
web page Synopsis: String theory has made no testable predictions. "the theory formerly known as strings remains a seductive conjecture rather than an actual set of equations, and the non-uniqueness problem has grown to ridiculous proportions. At the latest count, the number of string theories is estimated to be something like one followed by five hundred zeros." 
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#2
11-02-2006, 04:11 AM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
"Synopsis: String theory has made no testable predictions."
This is new? That's why a lot of physicists refuse to recognize string theory. "Physics" is necessarily testable.
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#3
11-02-2006, 10:15 PM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
Synopsis: String theory has made no testable predictions."
Synopsis: EVOLUTION has made no testable predictions.
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#4
11-02-2006, 11:36 PM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
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Synopsis: EVOLUTION has made no testable predictions [/ QUOTE ] I guess you have a very low level of education [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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#5
11-02-2006, 11:39 PM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
Acually i do, 9th grade biology is it as far as evolution goes, and all we talked about was plants.
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11-02-2006, 08:27 AM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
I wouldn't exactly say it was "debunked". If string theorists had made any claims about it, maybe it could be debunked.
I think string theorists are pretty realistic about what exactly it is that they're studying.
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#7
11-02-2006, 08:41 AM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
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I think string theorists are pretty realistic about what exactly it is that they're studying. [/ QUOTE ] They are not studying, they are theorizing. Just to make sure: the 'String "theory"', is nothing like 'Evolution "Theory"'. The latter is falsifiable, the former isn't. They are very different claims, one is factual, the other is prospective.
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#8
11-02-2006, 09:39 AM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
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I wouldn't exactly say it was "debunked". If string theorists had made any claims about it, maybe it could be debunked. I think string theorists are pretty realistic about what exactly it is that they're studying. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed. I find Brane theory to be fascinating. Debunking a theory is part of scientific inquiry. Sample, chew, discard. Does that mean we should only investigate correct theories to begin with? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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#10
11-02-2006, 10:07 AM
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Re: String Theory Debunked?
No argument with that. If it's crap, treat it as such and move on.
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