" Lost in Math is self-aware and dosed with acerbic wit, and it asks bold questions."- Nature The book is a wild, deep, thought-provoking read that would make any reasonable person in the field who's still capable of introspection doubt themselves."- Forbes "In her new book, Lost In Math, Sabine Hossenfelder adroitly confronts this crisis head on. "Hossenfelder ably mixes simplified explanation of the science with compelling portraits of the fascinating characters who study it."- Vanity Fair
"According to the physicist and prolific blogger Sabine Hossenfelder, Einstein and others who work in a similar way are 'lost in math,' the title of her lively and provocative book."- Wall Street Journal Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac.
The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. In this "provocative" book ( New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.
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