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https://www.science.org/content/article/after-empty-promises-string-theory-finds-new-uses
String theory has never developed into a working scientific theory.
Some physicists are are looking at a new beginning of how everything may
have developed to be what it is.
The paper is in press.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/10.1103/cw4p-cqh7
accepted April 2nd.
Abstract
We argue that string theory emerges inevitably from a few simple
assumptions about physical scattering. Consistency alone requires that
all tree-level four-point scattering amplitudes exhibit vanishing
residues at prescribed values of the momentum transfer. Assuming
ultrasoft high-energy behavior, we then prove that the space of
minimally consistent amplitudes, whose residues exhibit these mandated
zeros and nothing more, collapses uniquely onto the celebrated Veneziano
and Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudes of string theory. Similar logic also
applies to five-point scattering.
Sounds too good to be true, but it passed peer review. String theory
has promised to lead to the theory of everything.
Paper before peer review:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09246
Ron Okimoto
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