Limit to breaking strings?

Discussion in 'The Cesspool' started by John J. Bannan, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. kaneda Actual Cynic Registered Senior Member

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    100 years ago, these fundamentalists would have been telling us that the atom was indivisible as any idiot knows.

    Let's prove strings exist before we claim to know all about them.
     
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  3. AlphaNumeric Fully ionized Registered Senior Member

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    No, 100 years ago we already knew the electron and intense research was being done to understand the nature of radioactivity. Rutherford has already shown that radioactivity could turn one element into another and he had proposed a model for the internal structure of the atom.

    Yet again, you make claims you've made no attempt to check. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the history of quantum mechanics knows things like the electron was discovered around the turn of the century.
    These are predictions. String theory is making predictions about nature. Just like Schwarzchild used relativity to make predictions about super massive objects before we saw them. Or Dirac used his newly developed quantum field theory to predict antimatter before we saw it.

    To use an extreme example, QED is the most accurate model of nature ever. It's had some of it's results checked down to the 9th or 10th decimal place, parts per 10 billion! It's about 60 years old. But we've not yet measured photon-photon scattering because it's predicted to only occur measurably at energies we've not yet been able to reach, but the LHC will. And yet we think we know all about how it will happen because we've spent a lot of time developing QED and computing things in it.

    You seem to count the fact it can make predictions against string theory. As if predicting things before we've seen them is a negative. Making predictions is essential for any theory.
     
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