Found this on YouTube. A philosophy in part motivated by Roger Penrose.
Here’s a rundown of the whole theory
I think they’re throwing around the word theory inappropriately in the wiki.
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Why do you say that 
I think they are using the word theory when the word hypothesis would be more accurate.
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10/10 for pointing that out. The many different ways (ref. 1, 2, 3) the word can be defined makes it a prime candidate for misunderstanding, if not used in a precise manner.
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This practice is fairly common. For example, String Theory really should be called String Hypothesis or String Conjecture, because it’s virtually untestable.
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Yes and no, depending on your particular point of view. As a physics framework, I support calling it an hypothesis or a conjecture rather than a theory, due to its untestability. But as seen from a mathematics point of view, you can very well call it a theory. But in any case, string theory is a theoretical framework where point-like objects are replaced by one-dimensional string objects. So as a framework describing physical reality, one would be hard pressed to call it a theory. As a framework for describing a possible reality: maybe. If you only focus on the mathematics, where the physics is more or less uninteresting: Yes, probably.
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