Evidence for String Theory?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 28, 2006 @02:22AM from the quarks-and-stuff dept.

Izeickl writes "PhysOrg.com is reporting that scientists working at a neutrino detector nicknamed AMANDA at the South Pole report that evidence for string theory may soon be coming. Extra dimensions predicted by string theory may affect observed numbers of certain neutrinos and this is what the scientists will be looking for. The article further states 'No more than a dozen high-energy neutrinos have been detected so far. However, the current detection rate and energy range indicate that AMANDA's larger successor, called IceCube, now under construction, could provide the first evidence for string theory and other theories that attempt to build upon our current understanding of the universe.'"

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There are more string dimensions than S,M,L & by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-28 03:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I've already seen strings XS, XXL and XXXL !! So we have at least 7 string dimensions ...

Though getting to 11 can be hard:

XXXXS XXXS XXS XS S M L XL XXL XXXL and XXXXL

The dimensions are of different size ... we can easily live in XXXXL !!! But XXXXS dimension is so small that we could not really
see it with naked eye ....

Anyway, string physics is a sexy topic ...