i think there is scientific validity to it
I'm a skeptic as you might have guessed. Prove to me over and over that it works scientifically and all tests are repeatable and then I'll be on their side. Until then....
The very notion of diluting something to an infinitesimal degree to make it more powerful is, in my view, pretty bad.
Check out this link and watch the 3 videos at the bottom. The first 2 have it spot on and the 3rd is just plain weird. Any critical thinker would never believe her I'm sure. BTW, she was so far off on her string theory history I laughed out loud.
Gabriele Veneziano, a research fellow at CERN (a European particle accelerator lab) in 1968, observed a strange coincidence - many properties of the strong nuclear force are perfectly described by the Euler beta-function, an obscure formula devised for purely mathematical reasons two hundred years earlier by Leonhard Euler. In the flurry of research that followed, Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago, Holger Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute, and Leonard Susskind of Stanford University revealed that the nuclear interactions of elementary particles modeled as one-dimensional strings instead of zero-dimensional particles were described exactly by the Euler beta-function. This was, in effect, the birth of string theory. However, later experiments in the early '70s revealed that many of the theory's predictions were at odds with experimental data. As point-particle theory met success after success, string theory was left by the wayside by all but a few dedicated physicists.
