The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next / Lee Smolin.
By: Smolin, Lee.
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BookPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006Description: xxiii, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780618551057; 0618551050.Subject(s): Physics -- Methodology -- History -- 20th century | String models | Physics -- Methodology -- HistoryDDC classification: 530/.14 | 530.14 Summary: Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that physics has lost its way over the last fifty years, pointing to the fact that nothing new has been learned about the laws of physics since the 1970s as proof that the science of physics is dying out.
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Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that physics has lost its way over the last fifty years, pointing to the fact that nothing new has been learned about the laws of physics since the 1970s as proof that the science of physics is dying out.
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