String theory has never made a prediction that has come true and gets disproven each time we build a bigger particle accelerator and discover new particles. Like the theory can't even explain basic observations about particle physics and the universe. The String theorists just keep telling everyone that it will work out bro, trust us, give us more funding.

Like the only reason it hasen't been abandoned yet and is still weirdly popular is becuase of the perverse incentives in academics where it pays more to pursue this kind of groundbreaking nonsense than trying to advance the frontier of the established and boring Standard Model. And it's easy to be groundbreaking when you are just making shit up. Just think of the millions in research funding these charlatans have scammed from us. They have played us for absolute fools.

We need to round up all the String theorists and parade them through the streets with dunce caps, Cultural Revolution style. We need to do 70 hour struggle sessions against them until they pass out from exhaustion.

"Particles are actually tiny strings that wiggle" "There are 11 dimensions but you don't notice the extra ones cause their are too small" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I mean, for the most part particle accelerators really simplify things. They take tiny little bits and smash them together. They look at the noise it makes and figure out what could have happened to cause it. Like if it splits it two it'd make a twang instead fo a pop. Just they have to build giant super sensitive tools to figure it out.

    The problem is that when stuff is that small it everything is kinda the same. Light, sound, electricity. It doesn't make intuitive sense, but you know how you can get static on your hands and pick up fuzz? Picture that but on the scale of atoms to other atoms. So you just have to measure really carefully which direction things go and you can kinda figure out what they are made of.

    Also, we just handed out a Nobel prize nomination for Quantum non locality. Which is absolutely brian shattering. The idea there being we don't actually know how anything works, or simulation theory is real but the simulation is being run on atoms in the universe so in effect it doesn't matter that it is real. Neither of those actually answer any question, and only make things only more confusing but the math we did seems to indicate that is the case.