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Farewell to reality : how modern physics has betrayed the search for scientific truth / Jim Baggott.

by Baggott, J. E.

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Pegasus Books, 2013.

Physics -- Philosophy.

9781605984728 (hc.)

1605984728 (hc.)

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index.

The supreme task : reality, truth, and the scientific method -- The authorized version. -- White ambassadors of morning : light, quantum theory, and the nature of reality -- The construction of mass : matter, force, and the standard model of particle physics -- Beautiful beyond comparison : space, time, and the Special and General Theories of Relativity -- The (mostly) missing universe : the universe according to the standard model of Big Bang cosmology -- What's wrong with this picture? : why the authorized version of reality can't be right -- The grand delusion. -- Thy fearful symmetry : beyond the standard model : supersymmetry and grand unification -- In the cemetery of disappointed hopes : superstrings, M-theory, and the search for the theory of everything -- Gardeners of the cosmic landscape : many worlds and the multiverse -- Source code of the cosmos : quantum information, black holes, and the Holographic Principle -- Ego sum ergo est : I am therefore it is : the anthropic cosmological principle -- Just six questions : defining the destination at the end of a hopeful journey.

"Argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. These theories are not only untrue, they are fantastical, bizarre and often outrageous. The latest ideas about the nature of physical reality, with engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Paul Davies, John Barrow, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind -- essential reading for anyone interested in what we know and don't know. Jim Baggott is a former chemist living in England"--Provided by publisher.

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