Is String Theory Just a Hypothesis or a Viable Theory?

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Here is a rather interesting take on string theory. Is string theory just FSM?

http://www.theobjectiveobserver.com/articles/science08.shtml
 
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"What passes for an explanation is that “fermions” exchange “virtual particles” which mediate the “interaction”. I seriously and truly do NOT make this stuff up folks"

The proll from the street trying to grasp some subtler forms of science, and predictibly fails. People trying to jump that boat out themselves as fools, too... "what I don't understand must be wrong", isn't it?
 
I think the point the author is trying to make is that religion points to an "invisible", "undetectable" thing which is the reason why FSM makes fun of it but physics also points to "invisible", "undetectable" things which makes it just as bad as religion.
 
^yes, but physics also takes these unobservables and uses them to make predictions, which in the case of QFT have proved accurate.
 
This is an alert about a claim regarding the standard model, that got a burst of attention in the past two weeks. The original paper came out last year: "The electroweak η_W meson" by Gia Dvali, Archil Kobakhidze, Otari Sakhelashvili (2024) The recent follow-up and other responses are "η_W-meson from topological properties of the electroweak vacuum" by Dvali et al "Hiding in Plain Sight, the electroweak η_W" by Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Francesco Sannino, Jessica Turner "Astrophysical...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09804 From the abstract: ... Our derivation uses both EE and the Newtonian approximation of EE in Part I, to describe semi-classically in Part II the advection of DM, created at the level of the universe, into galaxies and clusters thereof. This advection happens proportional with their own classically generated gravitational field g, due to self-interaction of the gravitational field. It is based on the universal formula ρD =λgg′2 for the densityρ D of DM...

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