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The case for string theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ccXzM3x8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ccXzM3x8A tl;dr - Nobody theorized strings. They wer
by snarfy 9y ago
The case for string theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ccXzM3x8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ccXzM3x8A
tl;dr - Nobody theorized strings. They were trying to solve the scattering problem of w-bosons and came up with a solution. The interpretation of the solution is strings.
- euyyn 9y agoThanks for the link; TIL. He answers "But is it falsifiable?" with "Of course it is! If special relativity is false, so is string theory." Which misses the point completely. Is it actually falsifiable?
- woodandsteel 9y agoYou know there is something wrong with an idea when someone feels compelled to argue for it by giving a word a different meaning than it usually has, but not explaining he is doing that.
- posterboy 9y agofalsifiable literally has fals~ in it.