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So you feel strong theory connects to reality, and is falsifiable and avoids "piling on epicycles"? Will string theory be more parsimonious than the the more c

• 4ad 10y ago
  Of course string theory is falsifiable. String theory reduces to quantum field theory in some limit and to general relativity in some other limit. Unlike all the other previous theories, string theory is the theory that has resisted all efforts to falsify it yet. It's a ridiculous misconception floating around that string theory can't make predictions, when in fact string theory is the only theory we have so far that predicts all known observed phenomena.
  • cygx 10y ago
    String theory reduces to quantum field theory in some limit and to general relativity in some other limit. That's nice and clearly shows why string theory research is a worthwhile endeavor, but you only get a gold star once you make an experimentally verified new prediction. There is a reason why people were excited about the discovery of the Higgs boson.
  • Ma8ee 10y ago
    > tring theory is the only theory we have so far that predicts all known observed phenomena. That would have been impressive if it didn't also predicts even more that is neither known or observed.