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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

de Graham Farmelo

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"One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments. Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the world's most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the world's leading physicists have looked to a different source of insight: modern mathematics. These physicists are sometimes accused of doing "fairy-tale physics", unrelated to the real world. But in The Universe Speaks in Numbers, award-winning science writer and biographer Farmelo argues that the physics they are doing is based squarely on the well-established principles of quantum theory and relativity, and part of a tradition dating back to Isaac Newton. With unprecedented access to some of the world's greatest scientific minds, Farmelo offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics and the research that could revolutionize our understanding of reality. A masterful account of the some of the most groundbreaking ideas in physics in the past four decades. The Universe Speaks in Numbers is essential reading for anyone interested in the quest to discover the fundamental laws of nature." --… (més)
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Well presented and mostly understandable even to a layman like me. Long been familiar with Galileo's one liner about the language of the universe being written in mathematics but it seems that was just the beginning in more ways than you can imagine. The core of the book is really the relationship between maths and empirical research or even the swing between the two. The maths wing has become more predominant lately, not least because of the (astronomical!) expense of serious research at the frontiers. What is amazing and hard to grasp is how sheer mathematical calculation and speculation can tell us about the real world producing stuff that can get confirmed even generations later. Interesting to find that string theory remains the leading contender for explaining everything but still has no confirming results. So n o change since I last looked into the matter 30 years ago!
The book gives fine character portraits of the leading players, mostly men of course, but surprisingly international; plenty of Chinese, Argentinians, etc. (Not in the book, but one of today's avant grade maths men is Kurdish! )It gets a bit harder to follow as the tale develops, leaving behind what one might have heard of at school and juggling a plethora of exotically named particles that may or may not exist. ( )
  vguy | Oct 30, 2019 |
Farmelo seems to intend this work partly to be a counterpoint to Jim Baggott's _Farewell to Reality_ (2013) and Sabine Hossenfelder's _Lost in Math_ (2018). He extols the benefits that pure mathematics and theoretical physics can confer on each other. Pointing out that the two disciplines suffered a deep estrangement between the middle 1940s and the early 1970s, he portrays Einstein and Dirac as exemplars of his view before the break and others (such as Atiyah on gauge theories, Witten on string theories, Maldacena on dualities, and Arkani-Hamed on the amplituhedron calculational tool) as playing a similar role after it. He concludes that "[t]he universe is whispering its secrets to us, in stereo" (p 260).
  fpagan | Jul 30, 2019 |
Only just 60 pages in, but this is great, a must read I think for anyone interested in physics ( )
  JanGillett | Jul 13, 2019 |
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"One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments. Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the world's most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the world's leading physicists have looked to a different source of insight: modern mathematics. These physicists are sometimes accused of doing "fairy-tale physics", unrelated to the real world. But in The Universe Speaks in Numbers, award-winning science writer and biographer Farmelo argues that the physics they are doing is based squarely on the well-established principles of quantum theory and relativity, and part of a tradition dating back to Isaac Newton. With unprecedented access to some of the world's greatest scientific minds, Farmelo offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the blossoming relationship between mathematics and physics and the research that could revolutionize our understanding of reality. A masterful account of the some of the most groundbreaking ideas in physics in the past four decades. The Universe Speaks in Numbers is essential reading for anyone interested in the quest to discover the fundamental laws of nature." --

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