The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent DesignBook
by Leonard Susskind, 2005
Who uses, recommends or left The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
Mathematician and senior lecturer at Columbia University; author of Not Even Wrong and the blog of the same name.
disliked
That book struck me as embodying the worst aspects of where string theory has ended up, promoting to the public in a high-profile way a dangerously pseudo-scientific excuse for string theory's failure.
Post 'Short Book Reviews' — a batch of short reviews of physics and mathematics books he found worthwhile. He recalls his earlier verdict on Susskind's previous book before praising the new one.
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