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M is for messy.(Book review)
Lee Smolin The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. Houghton Mifflin, 392 pages, $26
Peter Woit Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law. Basic Books, 291 pages, $26.95
For more than thirty years, string theory has been what Murray Gell-Mann called "the only game in town." By this he meant that it was the only good candidate for a TOE, or Theory of Everything. Not only does it claim to unify relativity and quantum mechanics, it also explains the existence of all fundamental particles. Instead of being "pointlike," they are modeled by filaments of energy so ...
- Quantum gravity predicts piecemeal space.(physicists Carlo Rovelli of U. of...
- Magazine article from: Science News Peterson, I. May 20, 1995 700+ words
...Rovelli of the University of Pittsburgh and Lee Smolin of Pennsylvania State University in University...approaches to quantum gravity, especially string theory (SN: 2/27/93, p.136). In string theory, the point particles of relativity and...
- String theory seems to unravel: Two new books seriously question whether the...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Bortz, Fred December 20, 2006 700+ words
...The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of...Comes Next'' by Lee Smolin; Houghton Mifflin...The Failure of String Theory and the Search...a new book by Lee Smolin, a onetime physics...completely given up on string theory but is clearly...
- The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and...
- Magazine article from: Science News October 7, 2006 700+ words
...PHYSICS: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next LEE SMOLIN In their quest to understand...on an idea known as string theory. Proponents claim...explains, is that string theory is not really a theory...
- The Trouble with Physics.(The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory,...
- Magazine article from: Bookmarks January 1, 2007 700+ words
...Physics The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of...Comes Next By Lee Smolin A futile search...value of a "string theory" of fundamental...inspiration. So says Lee Smolin, a reformed...research into string theory despite a lack...
- Fit to be tied: impatience with string theory boils over.
- Magazine article from: Science News Weiss, Peter October 21, 2006 700+ words
...physicist who sometimes works in string theory--that cast string theory in a dramatically unflattering...by theoretical physicist Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute...Waterloo, Ontario--assail string theory as sketchy, ambiguous...
- The Trouble with Physics.(The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory,...
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch October 1, 2007 700+ words
The Trouble with Physics Lee Smolin Houghton Mifflin 215 Park Avenue...TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS: THE RISE OF STRING THEORY, THE FALL OF A SCIENCE, AND WHAT...access to theoretical physicist Lee Smolin's discussion on fundamental physics...
- Five problems in physics without the definite article.(COMMENT)
- Magazine article from: Science News Fendley, Paul July 18, 2009 700+ words
In a 2006 book that garnered much press for its silly attacks on string theory, author and physicist Lee Smolin provides a list of "The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics." There are many offensive things about this list, starting...
- What to Read Now. And Why.(Books)(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek July 13, 2009 700+ words
...loafe at my ease") and ecstatic ("Mad naked summer night!"). 17. THE TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS By Lee Smolin Smolin covers string theory and other topics in modern physics as no other has dared: showing that scientific advances are as much...
