Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law

Peter Woit

291 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even ...

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