Is beauty leading physics astray? Dr Sabine Hossenfelder has written a book on the subject and she was in Dublin this week to talk about it. Dr Claire O’Connell reports. Speaking at a public lecture ...
To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical ...
Science writer and researcher Hossenfelder argues persuasively that physics has stalled because of a focus on mathematical “elegance” rather than reality. Hossenfelder begins with supersymmetry and ...
Physicist Hossenfelder (Lost in Math) considers what “physics says about the human condition” in this smart survey. She uses the term “ascientific” for ideas that are beyond the reach of science—the ...
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 ...