Lost in Math
How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
(Sprache: Englisch)
"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...
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"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"--
Autoren-Porträt von Sabine Hossenfelder
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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- Autor: Sabine Hossenfelder
- 2020, X, 291 Seiten, Maße: 14,2 x 21 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA
- ISBN-10: 1541646762
- ISBN-13: 9781541646766
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2020
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Englisch
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