![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone capable of bridging the concerns of the human world and the baffling complexities of physics has earned the right to be indulged a little. ![]() Hossenfelder is sometimes a little too opinionated, the reader will quickly forgive her. I am a fan of Sabines YouTube channel 'Science without the gobbledygook', and this book reads like a detailed presentation on topics she might cover there, with easy-to-understand explanations. She relates how physicists struggle with language and metaphor in sharing how quantum mechanics addresses big questions with wider audiences. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Existential Physics: A Scientist. an informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us. Hossenfelder uses current and historical research to show the deep connections between philosophy and the scientific method. Hossenfelder breaks up her text with four interviews with physicists to provide 'other voices.' Their main effect is to confirm stereotypes of eccentricity. Hossenfelder doesn’t apply the distinction between unscientific and ascientific consistently, sometimes giving both labels to the same idea. The most surprising and interesting feature of the book is the claim that many of her physicist peers are as guilty of bringing speculation and belief into their scientific thinking as theologians and New Age mystics. She is less persuasive when she encroaches on philosophical territory, brusquely brushing aside the possibility of free will. Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions, Viking, 2022. Hossenfelder can mostly avoid straying beyond science because the questions she addresses are more metaphysical than existential. Though she would allow you to believe anything you want to. ![]()
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