This layreader-friendly, amusing treatise gives an enlightening look at a growing issue within physics. She is the author of Lost in Math: How beauty leads physics astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology, and of Existential Physics: A scientist’s guide to life’s biggest questions. Along the way, Hossenfelder introduces an array of important researchers, including stoic Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg and social media-savvy Australian astrophysicist Katherine "Astrokatie" Mack. Sabine Hossenfelder (born 1976) is a German theoretical physicist, science communicator, author, musician, and YouTuber. Elegant theories, she observes, don't explain dark matter and dark energy, or how to find multiverses. Though physicists from Newton to Einstein have prized mathematical beauty in theories, Hossenfelder sees this belief as a dangerous limitation. But it also predicts that more particles should be found at energies just above where physicists discovered the Higgs boson, but none have yet been discovered.
Supersymmetry theory, she writes, is accepted because it fits so well into previous theories.
Hossenfelder begins with supersymmetry and the standard model of particle physics, created to explain all the elementary particles discovered in the 20th century. Science writer and researcher Hossenfelder argues persuasively that physics has stalled because of a focus on mathematical "elegance" rather than reality.
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