06.27.06
Heres an article about string theory. Its titled “Has string theory tied up better ideas in physics?” (and the url filename is ‘notevenwrong’). For those of you who arent familiar with string theory, its a theory in physics that states that the universe is really 10 or 11-dimensional, and that all mattter is composed of vibrations of 1-dimensional strings (in comparision to the traditional view of sub-atomic particles being basically 0-dimensional points.).
But one thing they haven’t done is coax a single prediction from their theory. In fact, “theory” is a misnomer, since unlike general relativity theory or quantum theory, string theory is not a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world. It’s more of an idea or a framework.