Reposting this link that I found in the comments section from the previous time this article was submitted:<p><a href="http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8778</a>
> String theory has <i>so far</i> failed to live up to its promise<p>(emphasis mine)<p>How long should we wait? There should be a Samuel Beckett adaptation...<p>Valdimir: "Should we start work on some other theories?"<p>Estragon: "Yes let's"<p>(They continue adding dimensions to make their predictionless theories internally-consistent)