Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth
Farewell to Reality What evidence do we have for super-symmetric squarks', or superstrings vibrating in an 11-dimensional space-time? How do we know that we live in a multiverse? How can we tell that the universe is a hologram projected from information encoded on its boundary? Doesn't this sound...
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Farewell to Reality What evidence do we have for super-symmetric squarks', or superstrings vibrating in an 11-dimensional space-time? How do we know that we live in a multiverse? How can we tell that the universe is a hologram projected from information encoded on its boundary? Doesn't this sound like a fairy story? This title deals with these qestions. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781780334929 (1780334923)
Publish date: May 16th 2013
Publisher: Constable
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Increasingly often, modern science is being attacked by people accusing it of failing to honor its own rules. The opening salvo was Smolin's The Trouble with Physics, which caused some damage; it was taken seriously within the scientific establishment and widely read outside it. Other authors attemp...