M is for messy.(Book review)

New Criterion | April 1, 2007| | Copyright

Lee Smolin The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. Houghton Mifflin, 392 pages, $26

Peter Woit Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law. Basic Books, 291 pages, $26.95

For more than thirty years, string theory has been what Murray Gell-Mann called "the only game in town." By this he meant that it was the only good candidate for a TOE, or Theory of Everything. Not only does it claim to unify relativity and quantum mechanics, it also explains the existence of ...

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