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On Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics

General Physics 2007-07-18 v1

Abstract

Lee Smolin's casual accounting of special and general relativity in The Trouble with Physics raises an interesting question: is it possible to develop a legitimate argument concerning string theories starting from a shaky basis? This is apparently what Lee Smolin succeeded in doing when he wrote The Trouble with Physics. The book's shortcomings are nevertheless troublesome.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2536,
  title  = {On Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics},
  author = {Jean-Paul Auffray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2536},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages

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