Thread: String/M Theory

Originally Posted by Inside This Fantasy

But what I said about string theory making testable predictions is still true.

Just do a search on for string theory and the Hadron collider. It could prove string theory wrong once and for all!

I'm pretty sure that string theory is either inherently untestable or practically so.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Just do a search on for string theory and the Hadron collider. It could prove string theory wrong once and for all!

Thats what I said...

Originally Posted by Xei

I'm pretty sure that string theory is either inherently untestable or practically so.

Like I said a few posts ago, its neither inherently or practically untestable. It does makes a lot of predictions that are only testable at extremely high energies which we can't yet attain, but they are testable once we get the technology so it is definitely not inherently untestable. Even with most of its predictions at high energies, it does make a couple of low energy predictions that will be testable with the LHC, so it isnt practically untestable either. It used to be untestable (and I guess is until the LHC turns on), but it will be tested soon.