A Theory with No Strings Attached: Can Beautiful Physics Be Wrong? [Excerpt]

A Theory with No Strings Attached: Can Beautiful Physics Be Wrong? [Excerpt]

  • By Sabine Hossenfelder on

Adapted excerpt from Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder. Copyright © 2018. Available from Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a division of PBG Publishing, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

As I write this, it’s at the Center for Mathematical Philosophy to attend a conference that promises to answer the question “Why trust a theory?” The meeting is organized by the Austrian philosopher Richard Dawid, whose recent book String Theory and the Scientific Method caused some upset among physicists. Continuer la lecture de « A Theory with No Strings Attached: Can Beautiful Physics Be Wrong? [Excerpt] »