num_pages: 291
description: When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn’t just going in the wrong direction, it’s not even science. Not Even Wrong shows that what many physicists call superstring “theory” is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, not even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Peter Woit explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today, offering the other side of the story.
language: English
title: Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
titlecomplete: Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
genres: Popular Science, History, Science, Philosophy, Technology, Mathematics, Physics, Academic, Unfinished, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1708
publisher: Basic Books