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born 1957 United States

Peter Woit (born September 11, 1957) is an American theoretical physicist, lecturer at Columbia University's mathematics department, critic of string theory, and blogger.

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How did particle physics get itself into its current state where some of its most prominent practitioners question whether their colleagues have given up on science?

Not Even Wrong (2006)

In this kind of physics, everybody is always looking ... to the smart people and what is everybody else working on.

We have an incredibly successful theory called the Standard Model. ... It still leaves open several questions.

It has always seemed to me that the hard thing to understand is not quantum mechanics, but where classical mechanics comes from (in the sense of how it emerges from a “measurement”).

The standard model is just too good. It's too hard to find an experimental result that disagrees with it, and too hard to come up with theoretical advances that will address some of the things it leaves unexplained.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Woit (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.