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09-08-2006, 12:01 PM
ROCK ON NOT EVEN WRONG!
regarding "not even wrong," wikipedia writes:
Regarding physics, Pauli was famously perfectionist. This extended not just to his own work, but also to the work of his colleagues. As a result, he became known within the physics community as the "conscience of physics", the critic to whom his colleagues were accountable. He could be scathing in his dismissal of any theory he found lacking, often labelling it ganz falsch, utterly false. Famously, he once said of one such paper: "It is not even wrong."
Peter Woit's rockin' blob "Not Even Wrong," and his book "Not Even Wrong," may be read about here:
U.S. Publication of Not Even Wrong (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=449)
August 22nd, 2006 Today a heavy box with copies of the U.S. version of Not Even Wrong arrived at my office, and I’m quite pleased the thing is finally being published in this country. It appears that Amazon has it in stock (see here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465092756)), the very old publication date they still have listed as “September 30″ is incorrect. Presumably it should soon be available at fine book-sellers everywhere…
Update: Lubos has posted his usual slanderous review of the book on the Amazon site, and then presumably logged in from many different places to vote for his own review. Now it seems I get just one star instead of the two I got in the UK, since it seems I have “abandoned any integrity”. As usual, he’s very big on intellectual integrity. He lists as the first “embarassing error” in the book the Gev instead of Tev typo that was in the British edition, although he is well aware that, thanks to him, the typo was fixed for the US edition, which is the one he’s reviewing. He’s also paranoid and delusional, accusing me of “using various tricks to erase all inconvenient reviews”.
Update: I’ve updated the NEW errata page (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/NEWerrata.html) to include the US edition, and also started a reviews and press coverage page (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/NEWreviews.html).
Update: Since Lubos’s review of NEW on Amazon has been deleted, he is now offering $20 to anyone who posts a one-star review of “the book with the black satanic cover”, and manages to get Amazon to leave it there for at least two weeks. Yet another example of string theorist’s belief in the “market-place of ideas”, I guess.
Posted in Not Even Wrong: The Book (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?cat=2) | 62 Comments » (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=449#comments)
ROCK ON NOT EVEN WRONG!
regarding "not even wrong," wikipedia writes:
Regarding physics, Pauli was famously perfectionist. This extended not just to his own work, but also to the work of his colleagues. As a result, he became known within the physics community as the "conscience of physics", the critic to whom his colleagues were accountable. He could be scathing in his dismissal of any theory he found lacking, often labelling it ganz falsch, utterly false. Famously, he once said of one such paper: "It is not even wrong."
Peter Woit's rockin' blob "Not Even Wrong," and his book "Not Even Wrong," may be read about here:
U.S. Publication of Not Even Wrong (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=449)
August 22nd, 2006 Today a heavy box with copies of the U.S. version of Not Even Wrong arrived at my office, and I’m quite pleased the thing is finally being published in this country. It appears that Amazon has it in stock (see here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465092756)), the very old publication date they still have listed as “September 30″ is incorrect. Presumably it should soon be available at fine book-sellers everywhere…
Update: Lubos has posted his usual slanderous review of the book on the Amazon site, and then presumably logged in from many different places to vote for his own review. Now it seems I get just one star instead of the two I got in the UK, since it seems I have “abandoned any integrity”. As usual, he’s very big on intellectual integrity. He lists as the first “embarassing error” in the book the Gev instead of Tev typo that was in the British edition, although he is well aware that, thanks to him, the typo was fixed for the US edition, which is the one he’s reviewing. He’s also paranoid and delusional, accusing me of “using various tricks to erase all inconvenient reviews”.
Update: I’ve updated the NEW errata page (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/NEWerrata.html) to include the US edition, and also started a reviews and press coverage page (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/NEWreviews.html).
Update: Since Lubos’s review of NEW on Amazon has been deleted, he is now offering $20 to anyone who posts a one-star review of “the book with the black satanic cover”, and manages to get Amazon to leave it there for at least two weeks. Yet another example of string theorist’s belief in the “market-place of ideas”, I guess.
Posted in Not Even Wrong: The Book (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?cat=2) | 62 Comments » (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=449#comments)
ROCK ON NOT EVEN WRONG!