>>12669753>Why does string seemingly structure itself to be both unprovable & utterly pointless anyway?one thing to keep in mind is that originally string theory was the dual resonance model of hadrons and the dual resonance model was actually quite predictive about the properties of nuclear resonances. regge trajectories and all that
the reason it got the way it is is that the string formalism was adapted to quantum gravity instead and naturally that lives at super high energy. string theory has basically no free numerical parameters and all of the ambiguities come from dynamics. so in order to fit it to data it isn’t a matter of tuning some numbers like in the standard model or the dual resonance model—instead it amounts to solving the theory. and solving the theory is basically known to be a dead end ... imho this is really because string theory is known to be a limit of M-theory, but M theory has no nonperturbative formulation yet (but it could if someone discovers it) so some ingredient towards finding the right solutions is probably missing until we formulate M theory
