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.
##“两朵乌云”也许是各种物理学故事中最有吸引力的一个,因为它真实存在(尽管细节上免不了以讹传讹),并且开启了一个辉煌灿烂的时代。这两朵乌云构成了相对论和量子力学的前置研究,所以乌云的故事成了许多相关科普作品的引子。渡过了激动人心的20世纪上半叶之后,物理学家们...
评分 评分##作者花了接近全书的篇幅用来论证一个观点:近三十多年来,基础物理学的理论研究因为缺少数据而陷入依赖审美构建甚至评估理论的窘境。Hossenfelder将她多年来在媒体上积累的写作功力用于这本书,从而得以将艰深的理论物理学的困境解释给非专业人士。从这本书出发,读者可以顺着这条线索继续摸索:理论物理的下一步是什么?
评分 评分##跟想的不一样,以为会有概念上的发展和论证,结果一直是举例子讲故事重复观点。。
评分##几乎全面地介绍了现代基础物理学的每一个前沿和每一处碰壁。作者采访了Nima,Weinberg等一众活跃的厉害的物理学家,为了质疑对美和优雅的追求究竟能不能成为物理学研究的信条,也探讨了学术界的团体化,认知偏差等人类本性是不是对科学研究造成了影响。但是说到底,都是因为我们缺新发现。虽然作者的批评和警示在我看来没有特别大的建设性,但是这本书比目前畅销的科普书所展示的物理学要真实多了。挺希望被翻译成中文的。作者是研究量子引力的科学家,也是一位油管科普up主。
评分##“两朵乌云”也许是各种物理学故事中最有吸引力的一个,因为它真实存在(尽管细节上免不了以讹传讹),并且开启了一个辉煌灿烂的时代。这两朵乌云构成了相对论和量子力学的前置研究,所以乌云的故事成了许多相关科普作品的引子。渡过了激动人心的20世纪上半叶之后,物理学家们...
评分##跟想的不一样,以为会有概念上的发展和论证,结果一直是举例子讲故事重复观点。。
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