String theory which has been around for the past 30 years has not produced a single testable prediction, leading some physicists such as Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute in Ottawa, Canada to claim that it is time for a change and that physics must look to new alternatives. One such promising alternative is the highly innovative unified field theory called subquantum kinetics which has been developed by Dr. Paul LaViolette. Since the time it was first published in 1985, twelve of its predictions have been confirmed (see link below), perhaps a record among physics theories.
  Recently, subquantum kinetics had its most recent prediction confirmed when a group of astronomers working with the MAGIC gamma ray telescope based in the Canary Islands announced that they had found proof that the velocity of light is not an exact constant, but varies depending on the frequency of the light wave. This new finding overturns a basic tenet of Einstein's special theory of relativity which maintains that all photons should travel with the same speed equal to the constant c regardless of their frequency or energy. It also challenges standard string theory which had presupposed that the constant velocity assumption of relativity was valid.
  Commenting about one of subquantum kinetics earlier successful predictions, physics professor Panagiotis Pappas of TEI University, Piraeus stated, "Paul should be awarded a Nobel just for his discovery that planets and red dwarf stars share the same mass-luminosity relation." This finding confirmed his theory's early prediction that planets and stars continually produce matter and energy in their interiors through a process of continuous creation. Dr. Pappas stated, "His prediction of continuous creation, which leads to a viable cosmology that replaces the big bang theory, for me has been one of the biggest revelations."
  According to LaViolette's theory, space is not empty, as standard physics supposes, but is filled with a subquantum medium whose constituents engage in life-like reaction and diffusion processes. His theory posits that this ever-present activity continually creates the particles and waves that form our material universe. LaViolette identifies this unidirectional flux with the arrow of time.
  LaViolette, who heads the Starburst Foundation, a research institute based in New York and Athens, was first inspired to develop his theory in 1973 after reading about the newly discovered phenomenon of chemical wave formation seen in certain chemical reaction systems such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction shown below. LaViolette states "I reasoned that if space were filled with entities reacting and diffusing in a certain prescribed manner, then the fields that make up subatomic particles and photons might be conceived of as emergent concentration patterns in that medium, generated and sustained in much the same way that chemical waves are generated and sustained in such open chemical reaction systems."

  As such, LaViolette grounded his theory in ideas previously developed in the field of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for describing systems whose constituents maintain a state of ongoing directed process. His notion that the universe is based in directed process allies subquantum kinetics with the ancient teachings of Heraclitus as well as with those of eastern mysticism.
  In such a reaction-diffusion universe, however, the speed of light would not be the same for all wavelengths. Higher frequency (higher energy) photons would travel slightly faster than lower frequency (lower energy) photons. Although, as LaViolette wrote in 1985, the speed difference would be so small that it would only be apparent if one were observing photons traveling over vast distances, for example, light waves coming from a distant galaxy.
  In the early 1990's a group of scientists who were developing a quantum gravity theory that was a nonstandard version of string theory came to a similar conclusion. This group includes Dimitri Nanopoulos, a member of the Athens Academy and Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, physicists Nikolaos Mavromatos of King's College in London, and John Ellis and others at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva. Like LaViolette, Nanopoulos and his colleagues reasoned from their theory that higher energy photons should travel slightly faster than lower energy photons.

  Collaborating with 139 other scientists who call themselves the "MAGIC collaboration", they sought to test this prediction by observing the arrival times of gamma rays coming from the cores of distant galaxies. One promising candidate they chose was Markarian 501, an active galaxy that lies about 460 million years away. Using the MAGIC telescope to observe a flare in this galaxy, they found that lower frequency gamma rays in the energy range of 0.25 to 0.6 Tev arrived 4 minutes after their higher frequency counterparts whose energy was an order of magnitude higher in the range 1.2 to 10 Tev (Albert, et al., 2007). Besides confirming the predictions of their quantum gravity theory, this important finding also confirms the light-velocity prediction of the subquantum kinetics unified field theory.

  Dr. Ioannis Anastassiou, who works in nanotechnology research with the European Commission in Belgium, comments "Because of its long series of successes, subquantum kinetics may one day be the theory that is taught in every university physics program. It already has opened the door to understanding several phenomena that were not previously explained by conventional physics."

  Because of its highly complicated hyper dimensional mathematics, string theory is not easily understood even by most physicists. The basics of subquantum kinetics, on the other hand, are far more easily grasped, being grounded in classical physics concepts and in theories applicable to all living systems.

  Many of the unique aspects of subquantum kinetics are described in LaViolette's books Subquantum Kinetics and Genesis of the Cosmos.

Links:

Twelve predictions of subquantum kinetics: www.starburstfound.org/LaViolette/Predict2.html

A brief description of subquantum kinetics: www.starburstfound.org/LaVioletteBooks/ether.html

References

Albert, J., et al., 2007, Probing quantum gravity using photons from a Mkn 501 flare observed by MAGIC. Eprint: http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0708.2889.
LaViolette, P. A., 1985, An introduction to subquantum kinetics. Parts I, II, and III. Intl. Jour. General Systems 11, pp. 281 - 345.
LaViolette, P. A., 1994, 2003, Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Astronomy. Niskayuna, NY: Starlane Publications.  www.starburstfound.org/LaVioletteBooks/Book-SQK.html
LaViolette, P. A., 2006, Genesis of the Cosmos Rochester, VT: Bear & Co., 2004.  www.etheric.com/LaVioletteBooks/Book-BBB.html