String Theory Experiments

[antimatter]

I was recently reading a few articles about String Theory, and how it's 'permanently safe' because it cannot be tested. This bothers me in a way, because it's not really science if it can't be tested.

I thought about this a little, but unfortunately I don't know enough of physics to really get anywhere, but what possible experiments can be done to prove String Theory. Apparently the problem is in:

A. How small strings are

B. The massive distances

Does anyone have any ideas on how it can be tested/experiment-ified?

[Klaynos]

People are working on devising experiments for string theory...

 

And some stuff at the LHC could falsify most if not all string theories...

 

It bothers alot of people...

[Royston]

I found a couple of non-technical articles, neither give much detail, but string theory does appear to be heading towards experimental scrutiny...I'll try and dig up something more recent.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070124175443.htm

 

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/WhyLHC-en.html

[antimatter]

And some stuff at the LHC could falsify most if not all string theories...

 

How so?

[Klaynos]

How so?

 

By falsifying supersymetry... It'd still leave ALOT of string theories standing though, but would cut the field down massively.

[timo]

You could only falsify susy-models that cast a suitable upper bound on the masses of the superpartners (note that this is a necessary not a sufficient condition) or the Higgs-boson. I don't know strings but I doubt that they do. With "different string theories" are you refering to different values of the free parameters or to really different theories?

[Klaynos]

Different values of the free parameters I believe.