Bankrupting physics: how today’s top scientists are gambling away their credibility

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Copyright Notice Copyright Copyright Notice Title Copyright Notice Contents Copyright Notice Prologue Relaxing, Exciting, and Overstrung Physics Copyright Notice Part I Shortcut Chapter 1. Not too Bad, Homo sapiens, But . . . Reasons for Doubt: Something Is Rotten in the State of Physics Chapter 2. Galileo Would Freak Out! A Quantum Leap in Measuring Devices: Why We Live in Fantastic Times Chapter 3. A Speedy Revolution Why Cosmology Is Going the Wrong Way Part II Crossroads Chapter 4. The Basic Story What Einstein Told Us about Gravity and Space-Time Chapter 5. Still a Mystery Newton’s Gravitational Constant: From England to the Edge of the Universe Chapter 6. The Riddle of Small Accelerations Are Galaxies Really Just Big Planetary Systems? Chapter 7. Lost in the Dark Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Invisible or All in Your Mind? Chapter 8. Precision in the Tea Leaves Message from the Cosmic Microwave Background: How Much Is Just Noise? Part III Dead End Chapter 9. Muddy Water The Cosmology of Dark Pixels in the First Dark Age: Giving Work to Supercomputers Chapter 10. Speculation Bubbles Rise Expansion, Imagination, Inflation: Do We Know There Was a First Second? Chapter 11. Blacking Out Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Quantum Gravity: Ecological Niches for Theorists Chapter 12. The Fiancée You Won’t Marry The Standard Model of Particle Physics: How Playing with Mathematical Beauty Took Over Real Life Chapter 13. Chronicle of a Surprise Foretold How Higgsteria Delayed the Bankruptcy of Particle Physics Chapter 14. New Dimensions in Nonsense Branes, Multiverses, and Other Supersicknesses: Physics Goes Nuts Chapter 15. Goodbye Science, Hello Religion String Theory: How the Elite Became a Sect and a Mafia Part IV Backing Up Chapter 16. Clear Water Reason vs. Circular Logic: How Science Should Work Chapter 17. Welcome to Byzantium Complications on Complications: How Physics Became a Junk Drawer Chapter 18. The First Wrong Turn Deviation Decades Ago: Calculating Replaces Thinking Chapter 19. The Math Fallout How Theoretical Fashions Impede Reflection Chapter 20. Big Science, Big Money, Big Bubbles What’s Wrong with the Physics Business Chapter 21. Outlook Get Prepared for the Crash Appendix Thanks Permissions Notes Literature Index Copyright Notice