It all began with the publication in 1982 by Witten of an article with the title “Supersymmetry and Morse Theory.” This article was published not in a physics journal, but in a prominent mathematics journal, the Journal of Differential ...
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.
Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans
To date, only the arguments of the theory's advocates have received much publicity. Not Even Wrong provides readers with another side of the story.
He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders.