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Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory

Posted by samzenpus on from the proving-it-maybe dept.

StartsWithABang writes: The Large Hadron Collider has just been upgraded, and is now making the highest energy collisions of any human-made machine ever. But even at 13 TeV, what are the prospects for testing String Theory, considering that the string energy scale should be up at around 10^19 GeV or so? Surprisingly, there are a number of phenomenological consequences that should emerge, and looking at what we've seen so far, they may disfavor String Theory after all.

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  1. One quote from the article that is nice... by Hussman32 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The production of tiny black holes is one of the predictions. "

    No concerns at all with that one.

    Man I hope they know what they are doing.

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  2. TeV, GeV by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But even at 13 TeV, what are the prospects for testing String Theory, considering that the string energy scale should be up at around 10^19 GeV or so?

    Why the switch to GeV? Stick with a prefix and call it 10^16 TeV.

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