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.
As a non-scientist layperson who likes to follow science news, this particular problem has always been absolutely fascinating to me. The standard model is astonishingly accurate. General relativity is astonishingly accurate. But put them together and the results are incoherent nonsense.
Funny enough, this exact problem is what pushed me over the hump from being a wishy-washy liberal progressive into an actual socialist. I'm certain there's someone, somewhere, with the right intelligence and intuition to solve this problem. But they're probably toiling in some mind-numbing dead-end job because they never had the financial ability to attend a university and study physics. How many other incredibly challenging scientific problems could be solved if bright people could simply study what they're passionate about without having to worry about money?