Hossenfelder’s is the first book on this topic to appear since the LHC results showing a vanilla Standard Model Higgs and no evidence of supersymmetry or other speculative BSM physics. What effect will these have on those who have devoted decades to studying such models?īack in 2006 Lee Smolin and I published books concerned about where fundamental physics was heading, and five years ago Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality appeared with another take on these issues. She is writing at what is likely to be a decisive moment for the subject: the negative LHC results for popular speculative models are now in. Hossenfelder’s main concern is the difficult current state of theoretical fundamental physics, sometimes referred to as a “crisis” or “nightmare scenario”. I hope that the book will receive a lot of attention, but suspect that much of this will focus on an oversimplified version of the book’s argument, ignoring some of the more interesting material that she has put together. It’s very good and you should get a copy. Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Lost in Math should be starting to appear in bookstores around now.
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