Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law - Softcover

Woit, Peter

 
9780465092765: Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465092764 ISBN 13: 9780465092765
Verlag: Basic Books, 2007

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When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn't just going in the wrong direction, it's not even science. Not Even Wrong shows that what many physicists call superstring theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, not even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Peter Woit explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today, offering the other side of the story.

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Peter Woit is a lecturer in the mathematics department of Columbia University, where in recent years he has taught graduate courses in quantum field theory, representation theory, and differential geometry. His math and physics blog, Not Even Wrong (www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress), has been featured in Discover, Seed, and New Scientist. He lives in New York.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465092764
ISBN 13 
9780465092765
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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