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sesmlast Friday at 8:16 PM0 repliesview on HN

The word 'falsifiable' comes from Popper's criterion, which is central to scientific methodology. What it means: if theory predicts something, and later observations show that prediction doesn't hold, then the theory is incorrect.

String theory doesn't work this way, whatever was measured will be explained as an afterthought by free parameter tuning.