[Jensson]

> Physicists won’t take a look at a new theory unless the person pushing it can demonstrate very good reasons for physicists to do so

So why did all the string theories get popular?

[andrewflnr]

FWIW, by my reading string theory is, incredibly, a lot closer to being testable than this thing, which is more like a proposed formalism in which to expess a theory than a theory itself.

[bowsamic]

Because it did do those things