Single Idea 21175

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / b. String theory]

Full Idea

A future accelerator might create 'stringballs', when two strings slam into one another and, rather than combining to form a stretched string, make a tangled ball. Finding them would prove string theory.

Gist of Idea

String theory might be tested by colliding strings to make bigger 'stringballs'

Source

New Scientist writers (Why the Universe Exists [2017], 08)

Book Reference

New Scientist writers: 'Why the Universe Exists' [John Murray 2017], p.158


A Reaction

This is the only possible test for string theory which I have seen suggested. How do you 'slam strings together'?