No small matter: is theoretical physics stuck--and should you worry?
Reason › Vol. 38 Nbr. 10, March 2007
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No small matter: is theoretical physics stuck--and should you worry?
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 392 pages, $26
LEE SMOLIN became a physicist in the 1970s amid heady expectations that the field was on the verge of breakthrough insights into how the universe works. Theoreticians had proposed, and experimenters were verifying, the standard model of particle physics, a detailed but incomplete picture of matter and its interactions. The next step, it seemed, would be a "theory of everything," a full accounting of nature's most fundamental laws. Three decades later, he has written a fascinating and ...See the full content of this document
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