Mon premier blog

The trouble with physics Lee Smolin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There's been lots of excitement in the past year or so over the possibility that physicists will soon develop a real-life version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. Has the time come to admit these wild conjectures have failed, and move on? Check out this Google News search to get a taste of the coverage. Physics has become obsessed with strings, branes and multiple dimensions, yet the big questions remain fundamentally unanswered. Posted by John Dupuis on May 29, 2011. From the Archives: The trouble with physics: The rise of string theory, the of a science, and what comes next by Lee Smolin. Lee Smolin — The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next — Mariner Books, 2006, 392 pp. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Is it always good thing to know your limitations? Over at Scientific American, Samuel McNerney writes about the dangers of learning about common human cognitive biases. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin (Author).