Originally Posted by 2HousePlague

But now, a couple more years later, I see String Theory for exactly what it is...

The tenuous grazing of Science's long-reaching finger-nail against the Dome of the Divine.

String Theory contains some of the most speculative, inferential science that has ever achieved popular recognition.

It is, I believe, sufficiently different from any quantum theory before it to qualify for re-categorization as MetaPhysics (and see definition #3 below)