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.
Theory: it's infinity no matter how deep or broad we look. If we zoom out of our visible universe far enough, we'll see a multiverse, and a multi-multiverse, and then an unrecognizable layer of something that opens an entire new field of science and thought. If we zoom into subatomic particles far enough, we'll find more universes, more signs of sentience in forms we might miss at first or second glance, and eventually more universes.
We're simply in the middle if everything.
But everything else is also in the middle of everything. Our bodies are made of a googleplex of universes, and each of those universes are made of a googleplex to the power of a googleplex worth of universe.
We're fractals, at least in a poetic best-human-analogy-available kind of way.
Everything is buried in infinite layers of everything, and we're just in one unremarkable part of that infinity.
... or yeah maybe the Mormons are onto something, I dunno.
TO CLARIFY I don't think a dime of funding or effort or labor should go into verifying this quackery. It doesn't matter if we're in the 3D equivalent of Flatland or in the Matrix, not for now, because our speck of a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a of a speck of a planet and society need the effort way more than this shit.
The ancient Greeks knew there was a smallest constituent piece of matter they called Atomos (indivisible) because things rot away in finite time instead of in a Zenos paradox style way of continuously rotting forever, similarily you can only divide things so many times from what we observe. As far as we can tell, the modern particle zoo is as fundamental as it gets. There was some scientific interest that photons mightve been composite particles instead of fundamental as neutrino-antineutrino pairs in the 30s and 60s.
i mean the ancient Greeks also had serious qualms about the possibility of irrational numbers, so that assumption seems more conceptually motivated than anything to me
lol it's even worse because their math was geometric and constructive, so they didn't even believe in negative numbers. Irrationality being something hard to accept for them kinda makes sense because it's hard to grasp from first principles that two lengths may be incommensurate no matter how many tiny units they lay end to end. I think they killed the guy that proved it because it kinda shattered their whole world view that all mathematics could be geometric.