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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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##反經驗 這嚴格來說是一本理論物理學科普的書籍，作者沒有寫齣數不清的物理公式以及數字，相反他寫的內容有點類似於隨筆。 這些隨筆都是作者自己去親自拜訪一些物理學傢，然後跟這些理論物理學傢去討論目前最新物理學研究現狀，對話之外還有作者是怎麼找上這些人以及在和這些人對話時的...
評分##跟想的不一樣，以為會有概念上的發展和論證，結果一直是舉例子講故事重復觀點。。
評分 評分 評分 評分##2019-05-27 想讀 有評論說她在車軲轆話來迴說，但采訪瞭這麼多當代一流物理學傢，結果大傢都說一類的話，也說明問題吧。
評分##幾乎全麵地介紹瞭現代基礎物理學的每一個前沿和每一處碰壁。作者采訪瞭Nima，Weinberg等一眾活躍的厲害的物理學傢，為瞭質疑對美和優雅的追求究竟能不能成為物理學研究的信條，也探討瞭學術界的團體化，認知偏差等人類本性是不是對科學研究造成瞭影響。但是說到底，都是因為我們缺新發現。雖然作者的批評和警示在我看來沒有特彆大的建設性，但是這本書比目前暢銷的科普書所展示的物理學要真實多瞭。挺希望被翻譯成中文的。作者是研究量子引力的科學傢，也是一位油管科普up主。
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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