Lost in Math - Sabine Hossenfelder
Lost in Math - 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…
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Lost in Math - 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. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. 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.
Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods.
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