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

Peter Woit

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ISBN 10: 0465092756 ISBN 13: 9780465092758

Published by Basic Books, 2006

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Title: Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory...

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

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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 wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. In...

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