Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray [Audiobook] download free by Sabine Hossenfelder
- Listen audiobook: Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Author: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Release date: 2018/11/10
- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780465094257
- Rating: 7.52 of 10
- Votes: 569
- Review by: Melanie Ruffin
- Review rating: 7.89 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 3H53M26S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, Vorbis, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC (compression RAR, ZIP, ALZ, CAB, TAR.BZ2, TBZ2)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M16S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge, Western Philosophy: Enlightenment, Differential & Riemannian Geometry, Biography: General, Groups & Group Theory, Mathematics, History Of Western Philosophy, Cybernetics & Systems Theory, Topology, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 29.64 USD
- Dimensions: 157x236x33mm
- Weight: 499g
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