Новинки Сабины Хоссенфельдер

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal “Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science Magazine From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are…

Триумф физики элементарных частиц и других выдающихся физических открытий остался далеко в прошлом. За последние 30 лет физика, увы, не радует нас новыми гениальными научными теориями. Почему так происходит? Правда ли, что фундаментальная наука в упадке? Книга Сабины Хоссенфельдер исследует эту проблему и ищет ответ на вопрос: что должно лежать в основе современной физики? Автор берет интервью у коллег по научному цеху, современных выдающихся ученых, предоставив нам возможность увидеть, как устроена теоретическая физика изнутри, какие проблемы в ней назрели. Главная идея книги — в науке нет места догмам, и настоящие ученые должны остерегаться застоявшихся научных предубеждений, мешающих прогрессу в науке.

A contrarian argues that modern physicists’ obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science

Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these “too good to not be true” theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.