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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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評分##這篇文章跟弦論、物理學沒有關係。之所以寫在這裏是將所有對將數學正確性與物理現實混為一談的錯誤的批判集中在一起。對於純粹數學而言，古希臘式的數學也隻是一種有用的虛構。在其他科學中數學工具應該是古巴比倫式的而非古希臘式的。 文：傑伊·恩格爾（CJay Engel） 譯：禪...
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
評分 評分 評分 評分 評分##“兩朵烏雲”也許是各種物理學故事中最有吸引力的一個，因為它真實存在（盡管細節上免不瞭以訛傳訛），並且開啓瞭一個輝煌燦爛的時代。這兩朵烏雲構成瞭相對論和量子力學的前置研究，所以烏雲的故事成瞭許多相關科普作品的引子。渡過瞭激動人心的20世紀上半葉之後，物理學傢們...
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