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She is also a disillusioned idealist who’s worked at times in the gig-economy of science: scrambling for grants and temporary positions, while often questioning her own motivations. Hossefelder is brilliant, sardonic, clever, funny, tough-minded, and principled. Influence society and science policy (If you’d like a sample, Hossenfelder hadĪ recent Opinion piece in New York Times that outlines her views. Finally, she convinces us that these issues Incomprehensible math to get to the matters that trouble her. Non-physicists like me in surfing over the mind-bending concepts and Valuable insights into the way theoretical science works, even as she deftly assists Starry-eyed ode to the wonders of science the attractions of beauty are notĪlways a good thing, says the author, Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical The conceptual ideal of beauty permeates and shapes the thinking of the

Physics, meaning the branch of science that it deals with the very most basicĬonstituents of the universe – the entities, forces and fields that make up The discipline involved is “foundational” Is a good thing and what it means for the philosophy and practice of science. The lure of a natural mathematical harmony and elegance – “beauty,” for short –ĭominates the agenda of theoretical particle physics, and questions whether this I try to show that Popper could help her out. In which Hossenfelder worries about the state of theoretical particle physics, but also trashes Karl Popper.