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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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##由湖南科學技術齣版社推齣的《第一推動叢書·物理係列：迷失》，是目前為止我所看過的科普類書籍中，第一部明確指齣物理學傢提齣的某些理論中看不中用，且無法驗證的一本著作。但是對於這些理論的質疑我們普通人並不能理解，也無法分辨齣哪些理論讓現代的物理學更加盡善盡美，...
評分##E送我的書。不同學科間存在的問題還是很有共性的。
評分 評分##E送我的書。不同學科間存在的問題還是很有共性的。
評分 評分 評分 評分 評分##初看題目覺得是在黑string，其實作者指的範圍更大，是物理學裏到底對美的追求該占多大作用。反正我喜歡數學和理論物理，主要是因為那些美的東西能激起內心的熱情，若是都是很繁瑣的計算，怕也提不起興趣。說到底這個還是個人選擇吧。另外還是覺得即使從物理學本身來講追求美並沒有錯，隻是需要更多審美的角度吧，纔不至於死在一條路上，而對一個人來說，lost in math何嘗不是一件幸事呢
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