{"id":9282,"date":"2017-05-02T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2017-05-02T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:53:29","slug":"theories-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9282","title":{"rendered":"Theories of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a review for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.physicsworld.com\/2017\/05\/02\/the-may-2017-issue-of-physics-world-is-now-out\/\">latest issue of Physics World<\/a> of a short new book by Frank Close, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/profilebooks.com\/theories-of-everything-ideas-in-profile.html\">Theories of Everything<\/a>.  You can read the review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/PWMay17reviews-woit.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I discuss in the review, Close explains a lot of history, and asks the question of whether we&#8217;re in an analogous situation to that of the beginning of the 20th century, just before the modern physics revolutions of relativity and quantum theory.  Are the cosmological constant and the lack of an accepted quantum theory of gravity indications that another revolution is to come?  I hope to live long enough to find out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a review for the latest issue of Physics World of a short new book by Frank Close, entitled Theories of Everything. You can read the review here. As I discuss in the review, Close explains a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9283,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}