Bankrupting Physics

How Today's Top Scientists are Gambling Away Their Credibility

De: Alexander Unzicker, Sheilla Jones

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

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Physicists are announcing major discoveries with remarkable frequency, suggesting to the public that the billions of dollars spent on enterprises such as the Large Hadron Collider are producing important results. When the Higgs boson was finally announced, the media hailed it as another victory in the quest to crack the code of the universe. Yet, if one takes a clear-eyed look at the state of modern science, it becomes apparent that none the fundamental questions of physics that troubled Einstein, Dirac and Schrödinger have been solved.

But that hasn’t stopped top physicists from repeatedly promising a “Theory of Everything”, based on concepts such as ‘parallel universes’, ‘strings and branes’ in ‘extra dimensions, and ‘chaotic inflations’—without any evidence whatsoever. This not only qualifies as wishful thinking, but worse, it means surrendering the scientific method upon which the success of physics has flourished since the time of Galileo.

Alexander Unzicker and Sheilla Jones present an eye-opening account of the current state of affairs, and point out why some popular ideas are closer to Intelligent Design than science. Engaging and provocative, their critique takes on the most popular theories of science today while vividly describing just how fascinating the cosmos can be. In Bankrupting Physics, Unzicker and Jones raise a clarion call for physics to return to the successful principles from whence it came.