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 ...
The biggest open problem in the foundations of physics is that Einstein’s theory of gravity, General Relativity, does not ...
Recently, physicists at CERN announced that they’d re-discovered an anomaly in the way that certain particles (called B ...
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 ...