The quantum mechanical equations of string theory predicted that a particular, rather unusual, particle should be copiously produced in the high-energy collisions taking place in atom smashers. The particle would have zero mass, like a photon, but string theory predicted it would have spin-two, meaning, roughly speaking, that it would spin twice as fast as a photon. None of the experiments had ever found such a particle, so this appeared to be among the erroneous predictions made by string theory.
