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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. Re:String Theory\0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they were certainly created, but they occur amongst BILLIONS of other events. Part of the magic of the LHC is to ignore all of this and focus only on the interesting EXTREMELY RARE interactions.

    I wish the interactions of your fingers and the shift/caps lock keys were extremely rare.