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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
So it's like the string theory starts out by tracing the Standard Model, then tries to color it in while staying inside the lines.
How does it do this without making predictions?
So if I have you right, string theories are something like this: take all the math of the standard model, add more math, if it changes the standard model discard it, if it doesn't keep adding math. All the while making no falsifiable predictions.
I know I must be reading this wrong. I was struck by a comment in the reddit thread about how something posited by string theories and was supposedly proven (I think it was Higgs) was also posited by the standard model. This makes me wonder what string theories actually do. Could it be that anything predictable would just be a part of the standard model?
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