Bernstein, Gary Abraham: String Theory Is Complexity-Disfavored: A Description-Length Bound

String theory is exponentially disfavored under every standard parsimony measure. It requires 3,000 to 4,700 bits of specification to reproduce observed physics, including at least 1,661 bits to index one vacuum from a landscape of 10^500 candidates. The Standard Model's 26 scalar parameters require at most a few hundred bits at measurement precision, and potentially far fewer if compressible generating rules exist, as they do for mathematical constants like pi and other infinite-digit irrationa