Sabine Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Basic Books, June 2018) is a critical account of the disappointing progress in fundamental physics, primarily particle physics and cosmology, since the formulation of the “standard model” in the 1970’s.  It focuses on the failure to find new physics at CERN’s $13.25 billion Large Hadron … Continue reading The Perils of Particle Physics