Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics

Woit, Peter

ISBN 10: 0099488647 ISBN 13: 9780099488644

Editorial: Vintage, 2007

Idioma: Ingl�s

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Photos included in listing. About the book: How does the world work and what is mathematics role in its description? An authoritative and well-reasoned account of string theory s fashionable status among today s theoretical physicists, and promising new directions, including the role of beauty in mathematics and physics.

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T�tulo

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics

Editor

Vintage

Fecha de publicaci�n

2007

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0099488647

ISBN 13

9780099488644

Encuadernaci�n

Soft cover

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Very Good

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Physics

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Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?

The book begins with an historical survey of the experimental and theoretical developments that led to the creation of the phenomenally successful 'Standard Model' of particle physics around 1975. Despite its successes, the Standard Model does not answer all the key questions and physicists continuing search for answers led to the development of superstring theory. However, after twenty years, superstring theory has failed to advance beyond the Standard Model.

The absence of experimental evidence is at the core of this controversial situation which means that it is impossible to prove that superstring theory is either right or wrong. To date, only the arguments of the theory's advocates have received much publicity. Not Even Wrong provides readers with another side of the story.

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Peter Woit is a physicist and mathematician who is currently a Lecturer in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University. He graduated in 1979 from Harvard University with bachelor's and master's degrees in physics, then went on to get a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton University. He has been a postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. Since 1989 he has been teaching at Columbia where in recent years he has taught graduate courses in quantum field theory, representation theory and differential geometry.

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