The principal reason
predictions of string theory are not well defined is that the theory is not finished.
Once particles of dark matter are identified in the laboratory, their properties can be analyzed and compared with
the predictions of string theory.
The collider may also be powerful enough to test one of the most bizarre
predictions of string theory — that there are many dimensions out there.
Those neutrinos may reveal the existence of extra spatial dimensions, which is a key
prediction of string theory.
One
prediction of both string theory and LQG is that space - time is not smooth but «grainy» at extremely small scales.
Not exact matches
Using similar techniques originally inspired by
string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum
of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes —
predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).
One
of string theory's most dramatic
predictions is that we should find cosmic
strings.
So far,
string theory's
predictions have proved impossible to test with laboratory technology, but the analysis
of black holes could help anchor it to the real world.
Now there are all sorts
of exotic
predictions that people have made about the Hadron Collider; about looking for black holes that it might produce for example; that if they did see, it would just already just be it like, start handing out Nobel prizes to the
string theorists.
The main problem with
string theory — acknowledged by critics and supporters alike — is that no one knows if it will ever generate testable
predictions that can be addressed by experiment (a process that essentially defines the practice
of science).
Moreover, whether
string theory can make testable
predictions at all has often been the subject
of debate.
Dawid wrote that
string theorists had started to follow the principles
of Bayesian statistics, which estimates the likelihood
of a certain
prediction being true on the basis
of prior knowledge, and later revises that estimate as more knowledge is acquired.
In the four decades
of its existence,
string theory has not generated any novel
predictions that can be tested.
Greene, a Columbia University physicist and author
of the new book The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws
of the Cosmos (Knopf, 2011), explained that he only believes ideas that make testable
predictions — an area where
string theory has fallen short.
If you think global warming is outside
predictions, perhaps you would note that we have had a long
string of La Nina / neutral phase in ENSO.
He laid out the law
of accelerating returns, which states that technology improves at exponential rates, and made a
string of dead - on
predictions about computing