According to Smolin, writing in a review of Roger Penrose's "The Road to Reality" in the February "Physics Today", there has been a recent discovery that any string theory compatible with the observed positive cosmological constant offers a vast number of possible universes — at least 10500. So string theories may never be able to make any falsifiable predictions.
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