Our European and Chinese colleagues now recognize-as proponents of the abandoned American Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) did twenty-five years ago-that a far more powerful instrument is needed, should we choose to learn nature’s secrets. Eavesdrop on accessible and frank conversations in Hossenfelders Lost in Math, which wrestles with big questions of quantum mechanics and beauty in a fun, fascinating way. It has discovered that our Standard Model correctly describes the microverse at the highest energies yet available. Peter Woit, mathematical physicist at Columbia University and author of Not Even Wrong. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has done just this. It is to look where no one has looked before, to explore as best we can the workings of the world we are born into. “If particle physicists have only guesses, maybe we should wait until they have better reasons for why a larger collider might find something new.” 2 The purpose of costly particle colliders is not just to test theorists’ sometimes idle speculations. “Is a new $10 billion particle collider worth the money?” she asks. Sabine Hossenfelder shows even less understanding of her forsaken discipline in a recent essay for The New York Times. Her book presents valuable insights into the. However, this is no starry-eyed ode to the wonders of science the attractions of beauty are not always a good thing, says the author, Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist herself. These imprudent words demand rebuttal, but they do not characterize the remainder of the book. The book focuses on how the conceptual ideal of beauty permeates and shapes the thinking of the theoreticians.
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