Peter Woit

Peter Woit (born September 11, 1957) is an American theoretical physicist, lecturer at Columbia University's mathematics department, critic of string theory, and blogger. Quotes We have an incredibly successful theory called the Standard Model. ... It still leaves open several questions. Big Think Interview with Peter Woit 23 April 2012 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnWjZCS9YVY (See Big Think.) In this kind of physics, everybody is always looking ... to the smart people and what is everybody else working on. Peter Woit: String Theory and the Crisis in Physics September 8, 2024 Robinson Erhardt, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HfqRT29Gfs&t=6865s (quote at 1:54:25 of 2:03:29 in video) Not Even Wrong (blog) 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. Peter Woit w:Peter Woit The Trouble with Physics Not Even Wrong, math.columbia.edu http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=451 28 August 2006 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”). Peter Woit w:Peter Woit Is Quantum Mechanics a Probabilistic Theory? Not Even Wrong, math.columbia.edu http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10533 7 September 2018 Not Even Wrong (book, 2006) 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? p. 4 External links Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Bloggers from the United States Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Educators from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Columbia University faculty