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Comment Re:"It's caused by strings" sounds an awful lot li (Score 1) 236

The LHC has an off chance of indicating that some predictions may be wrong, but it's a long shot that an experiment in the foreseeable future will conclusively say one way or the other. So while you're right that string theory has given more equations than "god did it", it doesn't give us all that much more to test, which is the problem.

Comment Re:Not even wrong! (Score 1) 236

You're right that the LHC has an off chance of verifying (indirectly) some predictions of the theory (microscopic black holes, sparticles, super symmetry (of the breaking of) etc.), which is good, but I'm not aware of these "cracks" in the standard model that you mention unless you mean gravity, which is more of a limitation. Otherwise, the standard model has demonstrated some of the most spectacular agreement between theory and experiment in the history of science AFAIK.

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