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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6853817" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Nope. Though he got is Nobel Prize not for Relativity, but for his work on the Photoelectric Effect, a fundamentally quantum process, he had issues with the basic uncertainty of QM - he couldn't accept that the fundamental interactions between particles was not deterministic. He stood by his expectation that eventually, it would be shown that QM was incomplete, and that another theory would be developed that would show that the uncertainty was not real, but an artifact of insufficient information and understanding.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah. A fundamental principle of science is that a hypothesis must be, in some way, testable. For something like String Theory, this means it should make predictions that we can, at least in theory, test. We may not have equipment of sufficient sufficient precision to do it yet, but it should be possible in principle. General Relativity, for example, predicts that the orbit of Mercury should precess (and, it does). GR predicts that gravity waves exist, and it seems we've finally detected them. GR and QM both predict loads of physical effects we can look for, and observe.</p><p></p><p>String theories are a bit short in that department as yet. There are darned few (if any) experiments we can imagine doing, where we'd look at the results and say, "This result is due to the string-nature of reality." String theory has gotten to the point where it is consistent with many other theories for things we already observe, but that may just mean that String Theory is, mathematically, really just the same thing as, say, the Standard model. We'd say one model "is equivalent to" or "reduces to" the other. </p><p></p><p>Until we can demonstrate that string theory explains real physical effects <em>not explained by other theories</em>, it is really mostly a mathematical curiosity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6853817, member: 177"] Nope. Though he got is Nobel Prize not for Relativity, but for his work on the Photoelectric Effect, a fundamentally quantum process, he had issues with the basic uncertainty of QM - he couldn't accept that the fundamental interactions between particles was not deterministic. He stood by his expectation that eventually, it would be shown that QM was incomplete, and that another theory would be developed that would show that the uncertainty was not real, but an artifact of insufficient information and understanding. Yeah. A fundamental principle of science is that a hypothesis must be, in some way, testable. For something like String Theory, this means it should make predictions that we can, at least in theory, test. We may not have equipment of sufficient sufficient precision to do it yet, but it should be possible in principle. General Relativity, for example, predicts that the orbit of Mercury should precess (and, it does). GR predicts that gravity waves exist, and it seems we've finally detected them. GR and QM both predict loads of physical effects we can look for, and observe. String theories are a bit short in that department as yet. There are darned few (if any) experiments we can imagine doing, where we'd look at the results and say, "This result is due to the string-nature of reality." String theory has gotten to the point where it is consistent with many other theories for things we already observe, but that may just mean that String Theory is, mathematically, really just the same thing as, say, the Standard model. We'd say one model "is equivalent to" or "reduces to" the other. Until we can demonstrate that string theory explains real physical effects [i]not explained by other theories[/i], it is really mostly a mathematical curiosity. [/QUOTE]
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