Woit originally wrote that the center-of-mass energy of the LHC beams would be 14 GeV, instead of 14 TeV: this error has been corrected after long debates in which he didn't want to admit any flaws. The book contains a lot of very embarrassing errors. Because of these reasons, I originally rated the book by two stars.Īs the focus of the presentation shifts to modern physics since the 1970s or so, an expert recognizes that the author misunderstands some very elementary questions. The early chapters also honestly explain that the author has not done any important work in high-energy physics himself and that he has been isolated from research (and researchers) for the last 20 years. This part covers some standard material as well as some points that have not yet appeared in the popular literature. The first part of the book describes physics from the early 20th century to the 1970s or so. The book can basically be divided into two parts.
But the text is definitely not a trustworthy source of knowledge about physics. Parts of this book are fun to read, although they will be too difficult for outsiders. The book is not identical to the author's blog but it is not too different either. This makes Woit's blog highly popular among the crackpots, for example some of the reviewers of this book. Peter Woit is the owner of a well-known blog that provides high-energy theoretical physics with the same service as William Dembski's ID blog offers to evolutionary biology: it is designed to misinterpret and obscure virtually every event in physics and transform it into poison - and to invent his own fantasies to hurt science. Let's start with my first public review of this book.īitter emotions and obsolete understanding of high-energy physics (1 star)
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