String Theory has long been promoted as a candidate for unifying quantum field theory with gravitation. Yet its conceptual trajectory more closely resembles the topology of a Möbius strip: a continuous journey through mathematically rich structures that ultimately returns to its own initial assumptions. This paper evaluates String Theory against eight foundational criteria required of a fundamental physical theory: background independence, informational irreducibility, uniqueness of empirical mapping, parsimony, semantic coherence, predictive constrainment, ontological emergence, and compatibility with Planck-scale boundary logic. We show that String Theory exhibits structural non-compliance with each criterion. The theory presupposes background geometry, introduces layered descriptors rather than irreducible primitives, fails to generate unique observable predictions, and violates the logical constraints governing physics at the Planck limit. A fundamental theory must originate from irreducible axioms capable of generating the physical universe. String Theory does not do this. Instead, it elevates its own assumptions—dimensionality, background metrics, worldsheet formalism, supersymmetric extensions—to the status of primitives and retroactively declares them fundamental. This is not derivation but circular self-assertion. For this reason, String Theory lies outside the domain of fundamental physics.
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