Lost in Math
How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, and she's pretty mad about the way her subject has gone over the last thirty years. She's written this book to tell you why she's mad, and what she's done to try and find out what went wrong. She's talked with a bunch of people, some of them major star......more

About two years ago, I worked on particle physics phenomenology for my master's thesis. It's a mouthful, I know. It was also handful - if you can call it that. I spent months working on longass codes that I didn't completely understand, yet had to plough through anyway. (Don't come at me with 'nobod......more

Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist. This is her first book written for the lay audience. The author is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. The book is about the abuse of mathematics while pretending to do science. The book is a series of interviews with......more

Updated An absolute delight for a physicist, this book details deterioration of modern theoretical physics into a metaphysical argument. In a series of interviews with a cohort of famous theoreticians, Sabine Hossenfelder gives an excellent overview of the current state of physics - this pillar of sc......more

I figured that if Luboš Motl hated the book this much, it had to be worth reading. It's usually a sound principle, and it didn't let me down this time either.......more