What I'm reading now
I thought I'd try some shorter snapshot-type "this is what I'm doing" blog posts. Here goes....
Lee Smolin's book The Trouble with Physics is a very engaging discussion of how and why physics has failed to make any substantive breakthroughs since the development of the Standard Model 30 years ago.
If you are interested in the subject, I recommend it. If you're my wife and despise physics on principle ever since you were forced to take two semesters of it in college to get a computer science degree, I don't.
posted by PartTimeNorwegian @ 3:48 PM
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I'd say Smolin's book is one the most sensible on physics I've ever read. But with two reservstions: I don't think he's going to get very far with loop quantum gravity and I'd say he's made the wrong choice between tackling the concept of time, rather than the foundations of quantum theory, as the way out of the thirty year theoretical impass.
But the problem then is, I've concluded so far, the theoretical way out is just too radical and wide ranging for any physicist to comtemplate.
would love to borrow it this summer
Wow... Merlin is a dork. I almost forget, now and then!
:)
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