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Old 18-December-2006, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Cougar View Post
...Since string theory may not be tested in the foreseeable future, some scientists have asked if it even deserves to be called a scientific theory..."
I've been wondering about this as it has come up publicly, at least by one physicist.

However, string theory and M theory both predict a fixed number of spacial dimenstions due, as little as I understand it, to the number of vibrational modes necessary for the number of particles known. A year from now, the biggest solenoid I ever saw will be testing for other dimensions.
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