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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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第一推動係列叢書也讀瞭好幾本瞭，盡管很多看不懂，依然大受震撼，大概這就是科學的力量吧，因為科學纔是人類進步的第一推動力，正如總序中所說的，科學的精神之一，是它自身就是自身的“第一推動”。也就是說，科學活動在原則上不隸屬於服務於神學，不隸屬於服務於儒學，科學...
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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