“I have absolutely no doubt that it's not our universe”: Henry's review of Conversations on Quantum Gravity by Jay Armas
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This review also appears on Goodreads. It is by now a well-worn slogan that there is something called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. What is called ‘mathematical physics’ is considered to be the part of mathematics – the purely abstract world of definitions, theorems and proofs – where any purported connection to experimental physics and the nebulous concept of ‘evidence’ is merely possible and not strictly necessary. Mathematical physicists are mathematicians; it is someone else’s job to think about collecting the data. Large experiments such as the LHC have done an amazing job at revealing new entities such as the Higgs boson but have not yet revealed supersymmetry, a key part of the proposed theoretical physics underlying string theory.
“I have absolutely no doubt that it's not our universe”: Henry's review of Conversations on Quantum Gravity by Jay Armas
“I have absolutely no doubt that it's not our…
“I have absolutely no doubt that it's not our universe”: Henry's review of Conversations on Quantum Gravity by Jay Armas
This review also appears on Goodreads. It is by now a well-worn slogan that there is something called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. What is called ‘mathematical physics’ is considered to be the part of mathematics – the purely abstract world of definitions, theorems and proofs – where any purported connection to experimental physics and the nebulous concept of ‘evidence’ is merely possible and not strictly necessary. Mathematical physicists are mathematicians; it is someone else’s job to think about collecting the data. Large experiments such as the LHC have done an amazing job at revealing new entities such as the Higgs boson but have not yet revealed supersymmetry, a key part of the proposed theoretical physics underlying string theory.