> String Theory feels like a theory which is starting at the wrong place. I think there's also a place for setting aside our prescriptive rulers and looking at

> String Theory feels like a theory which is starting at the wrong place. I think there's also a place for setting aside our prescriptive rulers and looking at String Theory in its own right. As a programme it has contributed significantly to detangling the intractibilities in quantum field theory. Heck, it apparently even finds applications in such "mundane" applications as condensed matter physics by showing coorespondences between fluids and black holes. As a pure math endeavor, it's contributions to algebraic geometry are hard to miss. Personally, I think a lot of the "problems" with String Theory only arise when circumscribing it to be a certain kind of cosmological model.