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New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory
dexmachina writes "A team of theoreticians, led by a group from Imperial College London, has released calculations that show string theory makes specific, testable predictions about the behaviour of quantum entangled particles. Professor Mike Duff, lead author of the study from the Department of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, commented, 'This will not be proof that string theory is the right "theory of everything" that is being sought by cosmologists and particle physicists. However, it will be very important to theoreticians because it will demonstrate whether or not string theory works, even if its application is in an unexpected and unrelated area of physics.' In other words, string theory may finally have shed its critics' most common complaint: unfalsifiability. However, given the second most common complaint, I can't help but wonder: which string theory?" Update: 09/03 23:34 GMT by S : Columbia University's Peter Woit, author of the Not Even Wrong blog, says these claims are overblown, and adds that a number of string theorists said as much to Wired.
That's a good news for Dr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter...
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Obviously, it follows that love created the world in six days. Then love created a flood that destroyed just about fucking everyone, because you don't fuck with love, love is a sociopath.
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which string theory?
The one that will come out of the renormalization that they'll need to do to make it fit the observed outcome of this experiment, obviously.
If you complain at string theory, then PLEASE state what you are proposing. What is the use in complaining when you have no alternative?
Which by an astonishing coincidence is the same argument in favor of god-did-it theory.
No, it's nylons... and they only go down from the thigh (otherwise we're talking about pantyhose, which are a creation of the devil.) From the thigh up, it's garters. If you find turtles, retreat immediately. It's likely to get worse, and you don't want to know about that... guys that want to know about that become gynecologists. And no one with any sense at all wants to encounter dark matter. Also, garters first, panties (optional, of course), second.
Experimenting in this realm is highly recommended. Repeat a lot - you want to be sure.
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