![]() ![]() Hossenfelder is sceptical that this attitude really comes from experience. Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, interviewed for this book, argues that experts call “beauty” the experience-based feeling that a theory is on a good track. So, she wonders, what can be done when an entire field is starved of experimental breakthroughs? Confirmation bias ![]() She reminds us that physics is based on data. ![]() Hossenfelder retorts that physics is not mathematics, and names examples of extremely beautiful and rich maths that does not describe the world. Some leading scientists say that their favourite theories are too beautiful not to be true, or possess such a rich mathematical structure that it would be a pity if nature did not abide by those rules. ![]() She travels to various countries to interview some of the most influential figures of the field (but also some “outcasts”) to challenge them, and be challenged, about the role of beauty in the investigation of nature’s laws.Ĭolliding head-on with the lore of the field and with practically all popular-science literature, Hossenfelder argues that beauty is overrated. In Lost in Math, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder embarks on a soul-searching journey across contemporary theoretical particle physics. Lost in Math – How beauty leads physics astrayīasic Books Is the beauty of science overrated? Credit: iStock/francescoch ![]()
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