Has string theory really proven anything that hasn't already been proven by more traditional theory?

Answer 1

String theory is still being developed (past 30 years). The goal of string theory is the same goal that people have been trying to achieve for nearly 100 years: unify the four major forces of gravity, electromagnetism, strong nucleur and weak nucleur. No model ... Newtonian, Einstein or Quantum Mechanics can represent the 4 forces into one model that matches what we see in the very small and the very big. In fact, there is currently no test available to prove anything in string theory; there's not even a good speculative theory of how to prove strings exist. Many people consider it more a mathematical anomaly and faith than a piece of science.

Answer 2

String theory has not made any testable scientific predictions. No theory "proves" anything, it just explains scientific data and observations.

String theory reduces all known sub-atomic particles to vibrating strings, with the vibrations responsible for all of the particles. It does not explain gravity, and it does not really show how particular vibrations appears as specific particles.

Gravity is the real problem for physics. And now we have dark matter and negative energy, which string theory has not really addressed either.

Answer 3

String theory hasn't proven anything. It's only a theory.

But no, up until hearing about string theory, I'd only ever heard of there being 4 dimensions, rather than 11.

Answer 4

Rope theory is really an offshot of quantum mechanics and uses plancks constant as the bases of calculating energy interaction beween the ropes.The ropes vibrate and the frequency of vibration determines the Energy.
The theory is a step in the right direction in trying to decipher the substance of space which used to be called aether, and now is called space-time.

Answer 5

String theory is no good. It's put out by the same people who try to promote the big bang idea. It's all a bunch of group-think.

Answer 6

I don't know. But it's a lovely and elegant theory, isn't it. It makes me think of Johannes Kepler's theory of the music of the spheres, and of God's speaking the various parts of Creation into existence, as if the whole world were a great song. I find it a poetic theory.

Answer 7

If you created a string you wouldn't be able to predict where it was going to be and it would slow down in water?

Answer 8

Do your own Physics Homework.

Answer 9

Schrodingers cat doesn't think so.

Answer 10

No