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?

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...

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

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

 

How so?

How so?

 

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

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?

Different values of the free parameters I believe.