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Ok-Gap-6070 t1_iqyq8me wrote

Reply to comment by KypDurron in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

To be fair M-theory or string theory has no way of being proven experimentally as of now. Which basically means, according to modern empirical sciences, that it's not really true in the sense that Newtonian mechanics is. Or the theory of relativity.

That's not to say that it's not correct. Democritus theorized the atom but had no evidence for them. Turned out they were real. There was another guy named Kaṇāda that did it as well. So maybe we will get some thing we can build to verify string theory with a apparatus. And considering how much empirical evidence does technically back up string theory, it probably is true.

It's a very strange thing in the community of physicists. They wont shut up about needing experimental evidence to show that something is true. And then they just go YEAH STRING THEORY BABY.

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BarrelRoll1996 t1_iqzszkv wrote

Name something m-theory has been used for to generate empirically falsifiable hypotheses. Anyone? Yeah, we're all out of our depth here.

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