{"id":11931,"date":"2020-08-21T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=11931"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T21:50:09","slug":"ive-just-read-that-string-theory-has-finally-made-a-prediction-isnt-that-exciting","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?faq=ive-just-read-that-string-theory-has-finally-made-a-prediction-isnt-that-exciting","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve just read that string theory has finally made a prediction, isn&#8217;t that exciting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, string theory hasn&#8217;t actually predicted anything, you&#8217;ve been misled.  Innumerable bogus &#8220;string theorists finally find a way to test string theory&#8221; claims have been made over the years, a relatively early one was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/04\/04\/science\/physicists-finally-find-a-way-to-test-superstring-theory.html\">this one<\/a>.  For some postings with more details about such claims see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?cat=8\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","faq_groups":[],"class_list":["post-11931","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/11931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffaq_groups&post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}