![]() ![]() ![]() It makes no predictions, even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. In Not Even Wrong, he shows that what many physicists call superstring "theory" is not a theory at all. In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. ![]()
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