[allmost]

Add every number and every equation ever conceived, you have string theory. The resulting is garbage based on lies.

[allmost]

String theory predicts I have to use the bathroom in a few minutes. I don’t want to get up so we switch to M-theory.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[SpaceBar]

Fitting observation to a model is only the first part of theoretical physics. Prediction of as yet unobserved/unknown phenomena is the real test. Waiting.

[InterceptPoint]

It suggests that we are on the verge of understanding a new state of matter using a string-theory description,"

Good language for a short proposal to obtain more grant funds for your favorite scientific pursuit. Tie your project to String Theory and the money flows. Propose something actually practical and it's a no-go. That is the state of science today. String theory is a pretty mathematics and poor science. But worse, it has become, like Global Warming, a new religion. IMHO it is well past the time when String Theory needed to be either proven or abandoned.

[wendy1946]

String theory answers the question of whether the universe actually contains anything stupider than the theory of evolution...

[mosaicwolf]

Oh the time these folks waste on trying to explain an illusion.

[ozark hilljilly]

String theory suggests that vibrating strings that exist in 10 dimensions underpin the observable Universe.

Sounds like it could be an offshoot of the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion.

I've read a lot of explanations of 'string theory' and for the most part my feeble noggin can't quite grasp it. I wish it could, because this stuff does interest me. But at the same time, the more I read up on it the more I find it hard to believe that these same folks think we're nuts because we believe in God. ; )

[Bobalu]

[Moonman62]

Thanks for the article. Too bad it’s such a draw for the FR anti-science crowd.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks for the link. There is another program, perhaps even more interesting, about High Temperature Superconductivity. The talks are as well rather technical, but check out the “Discussions of Issues Raised in the Conference” http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/highertc09/

[UCANSEE2]

I wasn’t aware that superconductivity needed an explanation.

[neverdem]

Brain Surgery Using Sound Waves

The Grail Searchers (science shows that an embryo is a human being)

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Repair Heart

Jupiter Hit by an Astronomical Object

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[Fractal Trader]

string theory ping

[Paradox]

Something sort of suggesting a hope for string theory. I am certainly hopeful that things like this will allow us to "test" the validity of string theory.

Too bad the Luddites come out in these threads though.

[bmwcyle]