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.
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.