String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions 307
eldavojohn writes "Back in 2006 there was a lot of talk of testing String Theory. Well, today CERN has released a statement for the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment. The short of it is simply that as far as they could tell, 'No experimental evidence for microscopic black holes has been found.' The long statement indicates that since the highly precise CMS detector found no spray of sub-atomic particles of normal matter while LHC smashed particles together, the hypothesis by String Theory that micro black holes would be formed and quickly evaporated in this experiment was incorrect. These tests have given the team confidence to say that they can exclude a 'variety of theoretical models' for the cases of black holes with a mass of 3.5-4.5 TeV (1012 electron volts). Not Even Wrong points us to the arxiv prepublication for those of you well versed in Greek. While you may not be able to run around claiming that String Theory is dead and disproved, evidently there are some adjustments that need to be made."
Simple (Score:5, Funny)
Simple. The Creator obviously didn't NULL-terminate. Hence his strings have no black hole at the end.
The story of string theory (Score:5, Funny)
One day, Bob the Scientist was puffing on some buddha. He smoked and smoked, and smoked some more. Suddenly, Bob the scientist looked down: the lines between the tiles on the floor started to wiggle this way and that, giving the tiles the impression that they were vibrating. Bob the Scientist blinked his eyes twice, only to see the lines still wiggling, enticing them with their random, chaotic dance.
"That's it!" Bob shouted. "That's the answer, man!"
Bob the Scientist went and grabbed Bill the Scientist. He pointed at the floor, saying over and over again "The lines, man! Look at the lines! Wooooooaaaaaahhhhh."
Bill the Scientist sniffed, and said to Bob "Bob...have you been smoking that crazy ganja again?"
"Yes, but so what? Duuuuude...the liinnnes...their taaaalking to meeeee..."
"Give me some of that shit." Bill the Scientist took a big drag, looked down at the floor, and they both stared. "Woooooaaaaaaah...we better write this down, so we don't forget!"
And thus, string theory was born.
Re:fail (Score:5, Funny)
Then how DO you explain these infinite number of parallel universes? There must be some experimental rationale for the overwhelming evidence of these!
Signed, Arthur XXII, King of Britain and Jupiter.
Re:adjustments (Score:3, Funny)
All thoary shnge to adapt to new data. Newton can be falsifiad at the quanten level, that doesn't mean ti's not correct under everyday .
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Re:fail (Score:2, Funny)
This one is evil only because we are taught that it is a sphere when it is really a 4 sided cube. At least that's what I learned at timecube.com.