Peter Woit

American physicist

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

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  • In this kind of physics, everybody is always looking ... to the smart people and what is everybody else working on.

Not Even Wrong (blog)

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  • 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.

Not Even Wrong (book, 2006)

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  • How did particle physics get itself into its current state where some of its most prominent practioners question whether their colleagues have given up on science?
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