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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing
- ISBN
- 9780224076050
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Not Even Wrong
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Subject
- Science, Mathematics, Physics
- Item Weight
- 590 g
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Not Even Wrong tells a fascinating and complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle there is- how does the world work at the most fundamental level and what is the role of mathematics in its description? The author's perspective on this story is unusual since he has worked in both leading physics and mathematics departments and holds very skeptical views about string theory , the subject that has dominated research in this field for the past twenty years. The book begins with an historical survey of the experimental and theoretical developments that led to the creation of the phenomenally successful so-called Standard Model of particle physics around 1975. Despite its successes, the Standard Model does not answer all questions that one would expect it to address, and for the last thirty years physicists have been trying to come up with a better theory. What the remaining questions are is explained in detail, together with the history of attempts to answer them, including the spectacular new mathematics that has arisen from these efforts. Lacking guidance from new experimental results, physicists have
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780224076050
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89972533
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Science, Mathematics, Physics
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Not Even Wrong
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
590 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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