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Originally Posted by ApK
If a scientist says "I work in string theory" he means he is working on trying to develop a complete, consistent theoretical model based on the underlying hypootheses and predictions from other more developed theories. Eg,", general relativity predicts x an y, which has been experimentally proven. String theory would be consistent with x and y so let see if we can develop a sound theory we can test to prove it."
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In science terms, until you have a test to experimentally prove it then it should remain a hypothesis