Menu
Bottom of the pile
14
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
14/100Critics
15/100Scholars
Author:
David Lindley
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Date:
March 17, 2020
Much of theoretical physics today is something more akin to the philosophy of Plato than the science to which the physicists are heirs. Lindley asks, what is science when it becomes completely untethered from measurable phenomena?
What The Reviewers Say
Lindley has a real gift for narrative; it’s rare for science writing—even pop science aimed at a broad audience—to be this readable and engaging. Lindley pushes us through the history of science via a handful of touchstone figures, giving us a crash course of sorts. From the early work of Galileo up through the pure-math musings of today’s physics giants, we’re along for the ride.
... a polemical argument from a writer who won’t be pulling his punches.
... intriguing.
... neither the best book about the search for a unified theory, nor the first. Nor is it by any means the worst; but that simply isn’t good enough when following a path that has been so well trodden by the likes of Paul Davies, John Barrow and Steven Weinberg.
