String theory makes lab testable predicions, finally ?

[bojan]

http://www.universetoday.com/72531/scientists-say-they-can-now-test-string-theory/

[renormalised]

Good to see. They want to look around for other ways of testing the theories. It will, however, be quite some time before we can actually probe down to the level of strings and see them directly, or at least detect their presence. That will require energies vastly larger than the LHC can produce.

[CraigS]

That's cool.

I hope the results confirm the predictions !
I thought the world had to spend billions of Euros in CERN to do this.

All because Duff went to Tasmania !!
Perhaps some glory for Oz in there !!
:)

Cheers

[renormalised]

It's the air down there that does it:):P

[renormalised]

CERN won't get anywhere near the energies required to observe strings...not even close.

[CraigS]

No, I wasn't suggesting that they could generate the energy to get down to the string level ... but I thought that if they confirm things like supersymmetry they could develop tests which would ultimately support String Theory (?)

I heard that from Witten's own mouth, once !

Cheers
PS: Its a lot cheaper to use the 'Yellow Pen' method, though !

[sjastro]

Those damn String Theorists stole Supersymmetry from Quantum Field Theory.:)

One of many thefts...........

Steven

[CraigS]

I stand corrected )not that I was sure of what I said, inthe first place ..
from Wiki..

"Supersymmetry is also a feature of most versions of string theory, though it can exist in nature even if string theory is incorrect."

This is self-correcting-Craig .. over and out !!

Cheers

[CraigS]

Yep ok.

Just like The Pushers stole Arp and LeSage's gravity stuff from EU !

They're all crooks I tell ya !!

Cheers

[renormalised]

LHC = $squillion Euros

Little Yellow Pen = $1.50

Yep....Yellow Pen wins:):P

[renormalised]

I think they'd see it more as an "appropriation" of some handy maths:):P

[renormalised]

That would be quite hard.....he talks really quietly!!!!:)

[sjastro]

Very true.

I recall a documentary on String Theory on SBS last year. All the theorists interviewed were audible except for Witten.:D

Steven

[renormalised]

I remember the same doco'. I hope they repeat it at some stage.

[CraigS]

Not only quiet but very fast.
Small words, big concepts ..
Scarily cool.
Living legend !
My Master !

Cheers

[renormalised]

Mouth travels at 300m/s, but his brain is traveling at c:):P