Not Even Wrong, ten years later: a view from mathematics on prospects for fundamental physics without experiment.

 

Peter Woit

Columbia University

 

I'll discuss some of the issues raised by the book "Not Even Wrong", from a perspective of ten years later. Given the worrisome possibility that physics at much shorter distance scales will turn out to be experimentally inaccessible, I'll consider possibilities for whether and how the field of mathematics might provide a potentially helpful alternative point of view.