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ekjhgkejhgkyesterday at 8:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

One day when I'm not being lazy I might publish a point by point refutation of the usual nonsense anti-string theory memes. Until then, here's what I said on this point 25 days ago, specifically the first paragraph starting with "like another commenter".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336655


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fithisuxyesterday at 9:15 PM

In other words as we probe lower scales, string theory predicts thtat Lorenz invariance will never break,

as long we have to do with a consistent string like theory.

Is my understanding correct?

AnimalMuppetyesterday at 8:53 PM

OK, but if there are no predictions that we can test for several generations, how do you tell the difference between science and science-sounding nonsense?

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