Hossenfelder argues that the reason there has been no progress in the foundations of physics for more than forty years is that physicists are being led by mathematics rather than empirical observation-and more troubling than this, even, they are being led by a mathematical sense of aesthetics, by the belief that “beautiful" math must lead to “true" descriptions of reality. Her celebrated book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (which has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Romanian, and Korean) is an attempt to sound an alarm in contemporary physics. Sabine Hossenfelder, Ph.D., is a physicist, artist, and popular author.
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