The Higgs fake : how particle physicists fooled the Nobel committee /
"The book is a merciless critique of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and of the theoretical model on which the world's most expensive experiment is based. Unzicker, a German physicist and award-winning science writer, argues that the greatest physicists such as Einstein, Dirac or Schröd...
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| 520 | |a "The book is a merciless critique of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and of the theoretical model on which the world's most expensive experiment is based. Unzicker, a German physicist and award-winning science writer, argues that the greatest physicists such as Einstein, Dirac or Schrödinger would have considered the "discovery" of the Higgs particle ridiculous. According to the author, the standard model has grown unbelievably complicated and doesn't solve any of the great riddles of physics. Moreover, with their increasingly intricate techniques, particle physicists are fooling themselves with alleged results, while their convictions are based on group-think and parroting. Altogether, the data analysis cannot be overseen by anybody"-- |c Page 4 of cover. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (page 147) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Preface: |t Why this had to be said -- |g Part 1. |t The sickness of particle physics -- |g Chapter 1. |t Overwhelming complication: why good physics needs to be simple -- |g Chapter 2. |t Suppression of fundamental problems: how the important questions fell into oblivion -- |g Chapter 3. |t Historical ignorance: why particle physics continues to repeat the old errors -- |g Chapter 4. |t Evidence schmevidence: endlessly refined sieving: how particle physicists fool themselves -- |g Chapter 5. |t The big parroting: how incestuous expert opinions spread -- |g Chapter 6. |t Lack of transparency: why nobody can oversee that business -- |g Part II. |t How it came about -- |g Chapter 7. |t The steady degradation of thought: from poorly understood physics to high-tech sports -- |g Chapter 8. |t The takeoff to metaphor: brute force finding, brute force explaining -- |g Chapter 9. |t Approaching fantasy land: halfway between science and non-science -- |g Chapter 10. |t Towards the summit of absurdity: arbitrary theories and banal facts -- |g Chapter 11. |t The Higgs mass hysteria: if anything, the hype of the century -- |g Part III. |t Anecdotes -- |g Chapter 12. |t Who is telling and selling the nonsense: the big show of boasters, parroters and fake experts -- |g Chapter 13. |t Against belief: what we need to do... and what you should ask these guys -- |g Literature. |
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