Researchers in the United States have come up with a test that could indicate if some of the basic pillars of String Theory do not hold water. While the test (as is typical of empirical tests of theories) cannot prove if String Theory’s view of the universe is actually correct, it is at least welcome news to those who have been concerned about the fact that so far no one has been able to come up with a way to actually test the predictions of the theory.

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How to test whether our world is made of five dimensions? Look for black holes in the solar system. Apparently, for the Randall-Sundrum braneworld model to work, there ought to be thousands of small black holes in our solar system.

As reported in NewScientist’s online edition, the new neutrino detector being built under the Antarctic ice may be able to detect phenomena that could be read as confirming parts of string theory. Let’s wait and see, the detector should be ready by 2008, and results should start coming in sometime between 2010 and 2023.