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    Peter Woit (/ˈwɔɪt/; born September 11, 1957) is a Latvian-American mathematician who works in twistor theory. He works in the mathematics department at...
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  • nor denied and thus cannot be discussed rigorously and scientifically. Peter Woit uses the phrase "not even wrong" to mean "unfalsifiable". The phrase is...
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    more incoherent than just about anything else being published", wrote Peter Woit. He continued, "But the increasingly low standard of coherence in the...
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  • science Eric Scerri criticizes both Capra and Zukav and similar books. Peter Woit, a mathematical physicist at Columbia University, criticized Capra for...
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  • possible universes described by string theory. In his book Not Even Wrong, Peter Woit, a lecturer in the mathematics department at Columbia University, has...
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    paper and noting the lack of a dynamical symmetry-breaking mechanism. Peter Woit commented, "I'm glad to see someone pursuing these ideas, even if they...
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    Science. Griffiths 2008, pp. 372–373 Woit, Peter (13 November 2010). "The Anderson–Higgs Mechanism". Dr. Peter Woit (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Columbia...
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  • Gross, Harvard mathematician Joe Harris, Columbia mathematical physicist Peter Woit, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, Oxford geophysicist Raymond Pierrehumbert...
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  • caused by Smolin's and Woit's books. A video of the proceedings is available at UCSB's website. Loop quantum gravity Peter Woit Notes The Trouble with...
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    science. In the same year that The Trouble with Physics was published, Peter Woit published Not Even Wrong, a book for nonspecialists whose conclusion was...
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    meaningless. In a review written for The Wall Street Journal, physicist Peter Woit said that the problem with Tegmark's proposal is "not that it's wrong...
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  • benevolent creator". Others—most notably David Gross but also Luboš Motl, Peter Woit, and Lee Smolin—argue that this is not predictive. Max Tegmark, Mario...
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    His Ph.D. students include Vijay Balasubramanian, William E. Caswell, Peter Woit, Igor Klebanov and Juan Maldacena.[citation needed] Callan is best known...
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    penetrating lens on society and a revealing mirror into the human mind." Peter Woit, author of Not Even Wrong, wrote in a blog post: The Love of the title...
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  • principle in cosmology. The authors of two physics blogs, Lubos Motl and Peter Woit, are opposed to this use of the anthropic principle.[why?] Swampland Extra...
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  • obtuse in an era of growing problems that scientists could help address." Peter Woit "My own moral concerns about the multiverse have more to do with worry...
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    such as the h-index and the creativity index. The theoretical physicist Peter Woit called Weinberg "arguably the dominant figure in theoretical particle...
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    scientific opinions on that topic, with the other extreme being represented by Peter Woit. Following the example of Oriana Fallaci, Motl characterizes himself as...
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  • achieve such a thing. ... Maybe Hawking should leave God alone." Physicist Peter Woit, of Columbia University, has criticized the book: "One thing that is sure...
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    Bibcode:2013A&A...557A.116A. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321579. S2CID 119294989. Peter Woit (22 May 2013). "Hard Evidence for the Multiverse Found, but String Theory...
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  • for praise. On his blog, theoretical physicist and string theory critic Peter Woit called the film "fantastically good", but cautioned that Arkani-Hamed's...
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  • mathematics itself which I think few mathematicians would recognize —Peter Woit Philosophy of time Unger, Roberto Mangabeira; Smolin, Lee (2015). The...
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    Theory and The Search for Unity In Physical Law (2007), the physicist Peter Woit wrote that identification of a unified field of consciousness with a unified...
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  • penetrating lens on society and a revealing mirror into the human mind." Peter Woit, author of Not Even Wrong, wrote in a blog post: The Love of the title...
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  • Katsnelson (born 1957) Joseph Lykken (born 1957) Marc Mézard (born 1957) Peter Woit (born 1957) Ryan Rohm (born 1957) Wolfgang P. Schleich (born 1957) Mark...
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  • rankings have both been praised and criticized by academics. Physicist Peter Woit stated that historically the NRC rankings have been the "gold standard"...
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    retrieved 2008-09-10 Woit, Peter (20 October 2013). "Last Links For a While". Not Even Wrong. Retrieved 2 November 2013. Peter Woit (28 May 2013). "A Tale...
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  • in the U.S., stepfather of State Department Soviet spy Flora Wovschin Peter Woit—mathematics professor, skeptic of string theory Michael Wood— professor...
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  • Guralnik's last published work. Particle physicist and mathematician Peter Woit summarised the state of research at the time: "Yang and Mills work on...
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  • that normal standards of peer review were not upheld at the journal. Peter Woit of Columbia University was quoted as saying "it's plain obvious that there...
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