A Test for String Theory After All? Or Just PR? | Wired Science from Wired.com
At last? String Theory has been around for a while. However, most authorities considered it as only an interesting speculation as there was thought to be no way to test the theory, therefore taking it out of the realm of science.
See the Wikepedia entry below:
Problems and controversy
Although historically string theory is an outgrowth of physics, some contend that string theory should (strictly speaking) be classified as something other than science. For a scientific theory to be valid it must be verified empirically, i.e. through experiment or observation. Few avenues for such contact with experiment have been claimed.[20] With the construction of the Large Hadron Collider in CERN some scientists hope to produce relevant data, though it is widely believed that any theory of quantum gravity would require much higher energies to probe directly. Moreover, string theory as it is currently understood has a huge number of equally possible solutions.[21] Thus it has been claimed by some scientists that string theory may not be falsifiable and may have no predictive power.[22][23][24][25]"
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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