Should physics describe the world and explain why things are as they are? Harald Ritsch/Science Photo Library
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The World According to Physics
Princeton University Press (Buy from *)
ONE afternoon in 2016, Â鶹´«Ã½ consultant Stuart Clark and I barricaded ourselves in a room, armed with flip charts and pens, in a bid to work out what fundamental physics looked like. This turned out to be a confusion of lines and arrows – dotted, looping, scribbled out, realigned – between boxes adorned with “E = mc2“, “uncertainty principle (?)”, “quantum field theory” and “cosmic inflation!”.
The finished product…
