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Sabine Hossenfelder has grown up in Frankfurt, Germany. She has a PhD in physics from the University of Frankfurt. Since 2006 she has written the popular weblog Backreaction. Her writing has been published, among others, in Scientific American, New Scientist, NOVA, Aeon, Nautilus, and Quanta Magazine.
Sabine is presently a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Her first book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" was published by Basic Books in June 2018.
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. 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. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.
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##这篇文章跟弦论、物理学没有关系。之所以写在这里是将所有对将数学正确性与物理现实混为一谈的错误的批判集中在一起。对于纯粹数学而言，古希腊式的数学也只是一种有用的虚构。在其他科学中数学工具应该是古巴比伦式的而非古希腊式的。 文：杰伊·恩格尔（CJay Engel） 译：禅...
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评分第一推动系列丛书也读了好几本了，尽管很多看不懂，依然大受震撼，大概这就是科学的力量吧，因为科学才是人类进步的第一推动力，正如总序中所说的，科学的精神之一，是它自身就是自身的“第一推动”。也就是说，科学活动在原则上不隶属于服务于神学，不隶属于服务于儒学，科学...
评分##反经验 这严格来说是一本理论物理学科普的书籍，作者没有写出数不清的物理公式以及数字，相反他写的内容有点类似于随笔。 这些随笔都是作者自己去亲自拜访一些物理学家，然后跟这些理论物理学家去讨论目前最新物理学研究现状，对话之外还有作者是怎么找上这些人以及在和这些人对话时的...
评分##由湖南科学技术出版社推出的《第一推动丛书·物理系列：迷失》，是目前为止我所看过的科普类书籍中，第一部明确指出物理学家提出的某些理论中看不中用，且无法验证的一本著作。但是对于这些理论的质疑我们普通人并不能理解，也无法分辨出哪些理论让现代的物理学更加尽善尽美，...
评分##E送我的书。不同学科间存在的问题还是很有共性的。
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