Description: In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these Book and Mortar Record Store Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray -- Sabine Hossenfelder In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth. Author: Sabine Hossenfelder Publisher: Basic Books Published: 06/02/2020 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.69lbs Size: 8.27h x 5.51w x 0.76d ISBN: 9781541646766 About the Author Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she studies the phenomenology of quantum gravity. She has published more than fifty research articles on physics, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. She resides in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Label: Basic Books
Artist: Hossenfelder, Sabine
Album: Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Book Title: Lost in Math : How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Topic: Group Theory, Geometry / Differential, History, Physics / Mathematical & Computational
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Mathematics, Science
Item Weight: 9.1 Oz
Author: Sabine Hossenfelder
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
