Science According to the physicist and prolific blogger Sabine Hossenfelder, Einstein and others who work in a similar way are 'lost in math, ' the title of her lively and provocative book.-Wall Street Journal Born too late to savor the heady era when the standard model of particle physics came together, Sabine Hossenfelder is impatient for new waves of discovery.

If you want to know why so many contemporary theoretical physicists choose to believe unbelievable things, this is a great place to start.-Jim Baggott, author of Farewell to Reality Lost in Math is self-aware and dosed with acerbic wit, and it asks bold questions.-Nature provocative new book.-New York Times critical assessment of the field is appropriately timed. It is engaging, witty, and utterly profound. Read moreĬhoice award for outstanding academic title Lost in Math is a delight.

Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Worse, these too good to not be true theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. 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. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful.

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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. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

Hossenfelder lost in math