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Nature 438, 739-740 (8 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438739a; Published online 7 December 2005

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Physics ain't what it used to be

George Ellis1

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Science is venturing into areas where experimental verification simply isn't possible.

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

by Leonard Susskind
Little Brown: 2005. 416 pp. $24.95

Once upon a time, physics dealt with tangible objects — if you couldn't weigh them or smash them together, at least you could observe them. As times changed, physicists started to deal with more ethereal things: electromagnetic fields and space-time metrics, for example.

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