Tagged: Peter Woit

The trouble with physics? - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Apr 10, 2012 •

• belief,
• CERN,
• Large Hadron Collider,
• Lee Smolin,
• particle physics,
• Peter Woit,
• physics,
• Sciblogs

No, this is not an in-depth critique of string theory along the lines of Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next or Peter Woit’s Not Even Wrong: … Continue reading → … Read More

Hawking’s grand design — lessons for apologists? - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Oct 05, 2010 •

• belief,
• cosmology,
• god,
• Grand Design,
• Leonard Mlodinow,
• Peter Woit,
• philosophy,
• physics,
• religion,
• Sciblogs,
• Stephen Hawking,
• superstition,
• Victor J. Stenger

I managed to get my own copy of  The Grand Design (co-authored by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow) the other day. Talk about luck. I was on one of my rare visits to the big smoke and inquired at Borders. … Continue reading → … Read More