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  title info:
    title: Lost in math
    sub title: how beauty leads physics astray
  name:
    name part: Hossenfelder, Sabine
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: The hidden rules of physics -- In which I realize I don't understand physics anymore. I talk to friends and colleagues, see I'm not the only one confused, and set out to bring reason back to Earth -- What a wonderful world -- In which I read a lot of books about dead people and find that everyone likes pretty ideas but that pretty ideas sometimes work badly. On a conference I begin to worry that physicists are about to discard the scientific method -- The state of the union -- In which I sum up 10 years of education in 30 pages and chat about the glory days of particle physics -- Cracks in the foundations -- In which I meet with Nima Arkani-Hamed and do my best to accept that nature isn't natural, everything we learn is awesome, and that nobody gives a fuck what I think -- Ideal theories -- In which I search the end of science but find that the imagination of theoretical physicists is endless. I fly to Austin, I let Steven Weinberg talk at me, and realize how much we do just to avoid boredom -- The incomprehensible comprehensibility of quantum mechanics -- In which I ponder the difference between math and magic -- One to rule them all -- In which I try to find out if anyone would care about the laws of nature if they weren't beautiful. I stop by in Arizona where Frank Wilczek tells me his little theory of something, then I fly to Maui and listen to Garrett Lisi. I learn some ugly facts and count physicists -- Space, the final frontier -- In which I try to understand a string theorist and almost succeed -- The universe, all there is, and the rest -- In which I admire the many ways to explain why nobody sees the particles we invent -- Knowledge is power -- In which I conclude the world were a better place if everyone would listen to me.
  note: Sabine Hossenfelder.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  classification: QC20.6 .H67 2018
  classification: 530.15
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2017057165
  identifier: 9781541644601 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1541644603 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780465094257
  identifier: 0465094252
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 180611
    record change date: 20250816205830.1
    record identifier: in00003998846