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You are still using “prediction” in a sense that I would say is not at all “risky”. Put another way, so far string theory is an elaborate kind of curve-fitting
by guscost 6y ago
You are still using “prediction” in a sense that I would say is not at all “risky”.
Put another way, so far string theory is an elaborate kind of curve-fitting — a mathematical construction that matched the empirical data available at its inception, but one that to this day has never predicted a novel measurement. Unencumbered by the theory, we would not have expected any recent experiment to produce different results.
- whatshisface 6y agoMaps are literally curves fit to surveyed datapoints, and nobody questions their value. So what if string theory is nothing more than a map of physical laws? GR can't predict quantum behavior, the standard model doesn't have gravity, string theory does both and so is presently the only "theory of physics" in existence.