![]() Woit holds degrees from Harvard and Princeton (PhD, theoretical physics) and has taught both mathematics and physics at Columbia. Some readers may think that this book gets off to a painfully slow start, given the author's long telling of the history of particle physics, particularly as regards work done with particle accelerators/ colliders. The derivative here is the wrong sign." Peter Woit, posted on his weblog September 13, 2007. Everything that has been learned about string theory makes it more and more clear that the original hopes for getting unification this way were just misguided and can't work. ![]() "The fundamental problem with string theory is that, as far as its central goal of unifying physics goes, over the last nearly 25 years it has not only not made any progress toward explaining anything about particle physics, but, quite the opposite.
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