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The recently celebrated discovery of the Higgs boson has captivated the public's imagination with the promise that it can explain the origins of everything in the universe. It's no wonder that the media refers to it grandly as the "God particle." Yet behind closed doors, physicists are admitting that there…

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1 author picked Bankrupting Physics as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I learned a lot from this book, especially about areas of physics far from my field of research. It also contains many anecdotes and affairs related to closer areas within astrophysics. The descriptions of string theory research and other fields within physics seem to me similar to descriptions of a mafia or a sect.

After reading this book, I was under the impression that physics is declining and that we cannot trust much of the news about fantastic discoveries nowadays.

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