It took me several reads to understand that you had not built a pretty accurate scale model in the dessert.

I knew it! Now I will be paranoid again.

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May be a depressing read for actual high-energy physicists. Otoh, excellent schadenfreude for condensed-matter physicists who don't get to partake in those huge particle accelerator budgets.

Hossenfelder also has a fun podcast on YouTube. (5 of 5)

Hossenfelder does not do the usual nonfiction thing where she repeats a point over and over in different ways. For big chunks of the book, she makes a point in one sentence, then makes another point that builds on it in the next sentence, then maybe a sentence of snark, then another point. (4 of n)

Her writing style is very entertaining. I can pretty much follow it, and while I do have a degree in physics, I did condensed matter rather than high energy, so I know as little about the standard model as an enthusiastic non-physicist would. The book is nominally for the layman. (3 of n)

Hossenfelder talks about how this is not the scientific method, and about the long history of beautiful theories being wrong (and, of course, being right). The heliocentric model of the Solar System was rejected for valid-seeming reasons of beauty that are not the ones you would expect. (2 of n)