String theory has its scientific origins in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but it was propelled into the full view of the public in 2000 thanks to Brian Greene's readily accessible and scientifically accurate (if mathematically devoid) prose in The Elegant Universe. In the intervening decade, the basic ideas of string theory—that the Universe is potentially made up of little strings—has become fairly well known by members of the public. However, with no real possible experimental test to directly probe for the existence of these tiny strings, many within and outside the scientific community question the validity of a "theory of everything" that has no readily testable predictions.
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