http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/09/is_string_theory_an_unphysical.php?utm_... > > HAH! I've had that issue for some time, but assuming you saw my spam about the first real-world application of a string-theoretic formula, I'm no longer prepared to write it off completely. > > To counter that minor bit of optimism: Newton's equations for gravity, although still useful; had the entirely wrong premise. String Theory has very far way to climb in order to be fully valid.-Here is hope for strings, a new set of helpful equations, maybe?:- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922202535.htm