String Theory, summarized

[Nucular]

Great cartoon

I always thought string theory was a bit ropey.

 

[Zygar]

Basically Supersymmetry is a theory revolving around what sorts of bosons are possible in our universe.

I screwed up. It's the other way around. String theory started out as Bosonic String theory, so it was the boson specific theory until Supersymmetry was added in. Supersymmetry describes a more complete set of elementary particles than was described in string theory before strings were made to include supersymmetry.

But my argument still stands. Supersymmetry can still be valid without strings, and proving Supersymmetry does not prove String theory. It does help, but it is not proof.

 

[Cuddles]

Do you have any references about this subject? I haven't seen any experiments prepared that are not wholly based upon Supersymmetry. My understanding of the concepts at work is that Supersymmetry has a subset of seperate claims which are falsifiable and are based upon earlier work in the field of Quantum Mechanics. Particularly having to do with the development of theories surrounding quarks and the Higgs field. Basically Supersymmetry is a theory revolving around what sorts of bosons are possible in our universe. The current amalgamation of theories does merge these two theories, but string theory is not validated by the predictions of Supersymmetry alone.

But the amalgamations make different predictions that either of the theories seperately. Proving supersymmetry correct by itself would mean that string and superstring theories must be wrong.

As for Supersymmetric String theory, the currently accepted "super theory" is M-Theory, which is infact a merging of all accepted physics models. It's the "God" theory (in more ways than one). My above points stand with M-Theory because it is still based upon the string model, and is still unfalsifiable.

Superstring theory is not the same as M-theory. M-theory is a higher-dimensional extension of string theory, but says nothing extra at the scales currently available to us. Superstring theory makes predictions, but M-theory is mostly just handwaving about hypothetical multiverses, although it has the potential to say much more.

 

[Zygar]

Superstring theory is not the same as M-theory. M-theory is a higher-dimensional extension of string theory, but says nothing extra at the scales currently available to us. Superstring theory makes predictions, but M-theory is mostly just handwaving about hypothetical multiverses, although it has the potential to say much more.

I am 100% onboard on that subject.

Although I'd still like to see some references on the predictions that will prove or disprove strings. I've not been able to find anything corresponding to a direct proof of strings, just direct proof of supersymmetry.