Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law, (Paperback)

from Jewsbury

I enjoyed this book more than I expected. Peter Woit is a man prepared to act on the courage of his convictions. The reader will wonder at times whether he is being a little too critical. Nevertheless provided you are not a string theorist, his forthrightness is one reason his book is enjoyable t...

from abraxalito

The subtext of this book closely describes only the last third of it, so I consider it's rather misleading. It's not mainly about the failure of string theory, more history of the development of particle physics. Also I don't feel that the author has much of a gift of explaining difficult concept...

from hypatiaa

I actually thoroughly enjoyed this book. It took me on a very clear journey on the development of the standard model and the personalities involved with it in the first part of the book. I have to thank the author for pointing me in the direction of Hermann Weyl's "Symmetry", which I enjoyed very...

from IslandDave

Having read books by both Brian Greene and Michio Kaku promoting string and M-theory , I thought I should pick up a serious criticism of those concepts. Woit is a collegue of Greene but is anti-string theory. He argues persuasively that string theory is fatally flawed due to a lack of any predict...

from BakuDreamer

This is actually about Weyl and gauge / symetries, but they needed to market it as ' anti-string theroy ' It's very good, lots of important stuff.