Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099488644 (0099488647)
Publish date: June 7th 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 2006)Peter Woit: “Wow it seems this is a contentious subject with many different views . My two pence worth bearing in mind I am no butcher. Well, the bacon should be good quality from a real butchers, rind on unsmoked. The Bread? Another issue with many counter arguments but for m...
Just looking at the title gives you a large clue as to what this book is about. Woit is covering a lot of the same ground as Smolin, in The Trouble with Physics. Both of them argue convincingly that fundamental physics has lost its way. Superstring theory has been around for over 20 years, and it ha...