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Are any of these alternative theories testable? String theory makes many uncomfortable because it is untestable.
1 posted on 12/19/2015 7:19:11 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I’m sure that Sheldon on the Big Bang will clear this up next year.


2 posted on 12/19/2015 7:22:24 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is making so much money for the media they’re learning to love capitalism!! (jimrob))
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To: C19fan

God does not play dice.


3 posted on 12/19/2015 7:48:03 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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Isn’t this all just theory anyway? Quantum mechanics experiments just seem to result in more questions. Maybe God doesn’t want us to know.


4 posted on 12/19/2015 7:53:17 AM PST by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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All that matters is whether any of these prove or are caused by anthropogenic global warming.


5 posted on 12/19/2015 7:55:27 AM PST by redangus
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Woodwind Theory?


6 posted on 12/19/2015 7:56:24 AM PST by IronJack
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Always get excited reading these articles.
Going to dust of my microscope and telescope and work on these problems today.


7 posted on 12/19/2015 8:00:22 AM PST by jcon40
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You need shorter and more flexible pieces of string.


8 posted on 12/19/2015 8:05:25 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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My version of string theory is testable. If she has big ones and the bikini string didn’t break then it is valid.

Note: From now on until the character problem is fixed on FR I am just going to read the title and make inane comments. This follows on my tradition of simply making inane comments for no reason.


9 posted on 12/19/2015 8:05:50 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
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Sheldon Cooper likes string theory, so I don’t.


13 posted on 12/19/2015 10:19:58 AM PST by I want the USA back (Patriarchal binary all original-equipment breeder and White-privileged crusader.)
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There is no flat space if matter exists within it. Wherever matter exists, space is warped.


16 posted on 12/19/2015 10:55:17 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure from the scientific method.

Many of today’s theorists - chief among them the proponents of string theory and the multiverse hypothesis - appear convinced of their ideas on the grounds that they are beautiful or logically compelling, despite the impossibility of testing them.

Ellis and Silk accused these theorists of ‘moving the goalposts’ of science and blurring the line between physics and pseudoscience. ‘The imprimatur of science should be awarded only to a theory that is testable,’ Ellis and Silk wrote, thereby disqualifying most of the leading theories of the past 40 years. ‘Only then can we defend science from attack.’

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151216 ... f-science/


18 posted on 12/19/2015 12:45:46 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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19 posted on 12/19/2015 11:58:05 PM PST by Old_And_Grumpy
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