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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. have lot's of crowbars on hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    have lot's of crowbars on hand in case something bad happens (more likely a nuke) and we can say NK did that to get of them.