A String Theory Rebuttal  In the light of all of the recent
criticisms of string theory, many of which have some measure of
validity or logic to them, you may be wondering how anyone could
continue working on string theory. How could some of the most
brilliant physicists in the world devote their careers to
exploring a field that is apparently a house of cards?  The
short answer, stated in various forms by many string theorists
over the years, is that they find it hard to believe that such a
beautiful theory would not apply to the universe.  String theory
describes all of the behavior of the universe from certain
fundamental principles as the vibrations of 1-dimensional
strings and compactification of extra dimensional geometries,
and can be used in some simplified versions to solve problems
that have meaning to physicists, such as black hole entropy.
Most string theorists are able to dismiss the idea that string
theory should be further along than it is. String theory does,
after all, explore energies and s