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On this groundbreaking publication, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that physics — the foundation for all the sciences — has lost its way. For more than two centuries, our understanding of the regulations of nature broadened rapidly. But today, despite our best efforts, we know nothing more about these regulations than we recognized in the 1970s. Why is physics suddenly in big trouble? And what can we do about any of it?
One of the major problems, corresponding to Smolin, is string theory: an ambitious attempt to formulate a “theory of everything” that points out all the contaminants and pushes of mother nature and the way the universe came to be. With its exotic new contaminants and parallel universes, string theory has captured the community’s creativeness and seduced many physicists.
But as Smolin discloses, there’s a profound flaw in the theory: no part of it's been tested, and no one knows how to test it. In fact, the theory seems to come in an infinite volume of versions, meaning that no experiment will ever have the ability to prove it fake. As a clinical theory, it fails. And because it has assimilated the lion’s share of funding, captivated among the better heads, and effectively penalized young physicists for pursuing other strategies, it is dragging the others of physics down with it.
With clarity, passion, and specialist, Smolin charts the go up and semester of string theory and takes a fascinating check out exactly what will replace it. Several young theorists has begun to develop interesting ideas that, unlike string theory, are testable. Smolin not only instructs us who and what things to watch for in the returning years, he offers novel solutions for searching for and nurturing the best new ability—presenting us an opportunity, finally, of finding the next Einstein.
