and one more thing, john doe

[Geocoda at aol.com]

you say: 

.and no Sheldon Glashow
didn't say String Theory is not true cuz it can't be
proven false, he said that String Theory is
"philosophy, not science" because there is no way to
test it at the moment...again, qualification:

Sheldon Glashow actually said:

But oddly there has been a new development, in which a new class of 
physicists is doing physics, undeniably physics, but physics of a sort that does not 
relate to anything experimental. This new class is interested in experiment from 
a cultural but not a scientific point of view, because they have focused on 
questions that experiment cannot address.

So, not to nitpick and qualify, Johnny, but you've misunderstood a couple of 
key points.

1) It's physics, for sure
2) It is not temporarily, but permanently outside the experimental method

The point I was trying to make is that there are, within and without science, 
significant areas of thought that fall outside the basic outlines of 
experimental method and, secondarily, that there is a tendency to diminish the value 
of such thinking because it doesn't fit the model. What began as a tool has now 
become an unconscious filter of our perception of reality.

--geocoda
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