>>13699865string theory has been really good for math though, you gotta admit. a lot of stuff in modern math started due to string theory or developed a lot—Morse theory, Jones polynomial, Donaldson theory, Atiyah-Singer index theorem, Moonshine, Knot theory, heck Mirror symmetry was doubted by mathematicians but strong theorists literally insisted they double check their proof and the mathematicians found a big in their computer code and the bugfix literally proved mirror symmetry. literally the physical intuition from string theory guessed the answer right and BTFOd the math community, so even if it is not physically right it definitely stores some nuggets of mathematical truth
