DeaconBlues wrote:
String theory actually calls for ten or eleven dimensions, but most of them curl up on themselves and are undetectable. Therefore, most of string theory is nonfalsifiable, and useless until it produces testable predictions.
Some physicists have raised strong objections to String Theory because of its lack of empirical corroboration. Lee Smollin has written a book on the subject: The Trouble with Physics. To many theoretical physicists have taken the position that mathematical elegance and beauty is an indicator of truth. This is medieval nonsense. only genuine empirical testing can establish a physical theory provisionally.
ruveyn