Comment Re:...the first rigorous proof... of unprovables. (Score 1) 612
I'm sure the math can line up to make it "work" on paper but how exactly does one test such things?
You look for consequences of the theory. Things that would happen as a result of this, but which you won't expect otherwise.
A great example being the recent announcement by the BICEP2 people. The theory they were working on was inflation - which made the maths work on paper, but happened billions of years ago so was hard to test. But the theory predicted that inflation would have caused an "imprint" of gravitational waves in the microwave background radiation, something unlikely to happen otherwise - and these people were able to detect this imprint.
This is how science works sometimes. The theoretical physicists come up with a theory, the mathematicians prove it is possible and the experimental physicists find some consequence of the theory that can be tested.