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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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...
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同樣的論點,翻來覆去說很多遍
評分同樣的論點,翻來覆去說很多遍
評分同樣的論點,翻來覆去說很多遍
評分對理論物理學傢的田野調查。和Nima Arkani-Hamed, Steven Weinberg,Joe Polchinski, 文小剛等人的訪談很值得一讀。
評分E送我的書。不同學科間存在的問題還是很有共性的。
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