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String Theory Put to the Test
secretsather writes to mention that scientists have come up with a definitive test that could prove or disprove string theory. The project is described as "Similar to the well known U.S. particle collider at Fermi Lab, the Large Hadron Collider, scheduled for November 2007, is expected to be the largest, and highest energy particle accelerator in existence; it will use liquid helium cooled superconducting magnets to produce electric fields that will propel particles to near light speeds in a 16.7 mile circular tunnel. They then introduce a new particle into the accelerator, which collides with the existing ones, scattering many other mysterious subatomic particles about."
Secretsather managed to pick a quote from the article that (except for the liquid helium bit) describes the operations of ANY large synchrotron (aka circular particle accelerator). Of course, that might be a good thing, because it means that only people who know particle physics and/or have read the article will be able to post a comment with anything close to relevance.