I’ve recently been probing around the science blagoplex hunting for other physics blogs to read. One of them, Not Even Wrong, is maintained by Columbia University mathematician, and former high energy theorist, Peter Woit, who wrote a book by the same name.

For those not familiar with the history of the phrase, it was coined by the notoriously insipid physicist Wolfgang Pauli to refer to work that is so poorly thought out that its predictions can neither be true nor false. The point being made by Dr. Woit is that, despite spending twenty years as the main theory of high energy physics, string theory has yet to even make a concrete prediction, much less a testable one.

Finally, after all these years, someone is starting to call the string theorists out on it. This includes a series of debates between Woit’s colleague, Columbia physicist and string theorist Brian Greene, and the author of The Science of Star Trek and Case Western Reserve University physics professor Lawrence Krauss. I really wish I could find a summary of the results of these debates, because they are sure to be entertaining and fascinating.