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> its a self-consistent theory

Nobody knows this since there is no exact mathematical formulation of "the theory" to begin with.

> that fits existing data

Nobody knows this either since nobody has derived either General Relativity or the Standard Model of particle physics as an approximation to any string theory model.



General Relativity is a straightforward consequence of basically any form of string theory.




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