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String theory has been around since the late 1960s. To date, has it made a single prediction which was later experimentally found to true? (i.e. aside from "pre
by dudeinjapan 5y ago
String theory has been around since the late 1960s. To date, has it made a single prediction which was later experimentally found to true? (i.e. aside from "predicting" the existence of particles which were already known to physics)
- dudeinjapan 5y ago(Edit: given the large umbrella it encompasses, I suppose you could consider things like AdS/CFT correspondence, where a direct "domain transform" with quantum field theory is proven, to be a useful tool that in some instances furthered QFT. But such results are scant given the enormous amount of brainpower allocated to string theory as a whole.)
- leephillips 5y agoNo. That’s why I said that people “challenge it to show that it’s science.” Why are you bringing up string theory as if I’m defending it?
- dudeinjapan 5y agoI'm just suggesting that Wolfram's "theory" belongs in the same category as string theory. On some level it is probably a useful tool to understand something about science, say, beyond Deepak Chopra-esque woo-woo ("We are all energy, we are all vibrations", etc.) But it's not currently obvious that there's a there there.
- leephillips 5y agoI think it’s worse in the sense that I alluded to when I mentioned “relativistically correct.”