re: #661 slokat

Good, enjoy!

[Link: www.sciam.com…]

Lisi’s theory predicts the existence of 20 hitherto undiscovered elementary particles (including the Higgs Boson). Testing for whether these particles do or do not in fact exist will be one of the tasks set to the Large Hadron Collider. Testability is a hallmark of scientific assertions.

Your link leads to a story by a string theory sympathizer, quoting other string theory sympathizers. They don’t wanna see their grant money dry up. After all, it’s an easy gig; they don’t have to test anything, just tweak at mathematical equations that may or may not refer to the real world (and whether they do or do not is beyond empirical proof).

Give us a year (or even less), and we’ll know one way or another whether Lisi’s theory is true. The same cannot be said of string theory.