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hrynyshyn | September 29, 2006One of the biggest weaknesses with string theory, as an explanation for the way the universe is the way it is, and a possible way to bring together relativity and quantum physics, is the paucity of testable aspects. And if it ain't testable, it ain't science. So say the critics. But maybe string theory is testable after all.
The most recent proposed test pops up in today's Science. Tom Siegfried's story reports that "Superstrings that were supertiny shortly after the big bang could have been stretched by the expansion of the universe to cosmic size today, says Robert Myers of (where else?)…