Recently I saw a post about an article by Sabine Hossenfelder and I wanted to share the video that introduced me to Sabine Hossenfelder. Do you think her claims are credible? Sometimes I feel I'm just too anti-intellectual.

If you want to watch a longer version (in German with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99hVAu1k6G8.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Sabine is basically right. Physicists don't tend to like what she has to say but the majority of them don't have any real philosophy of science guiding them, they're captured by the assigned problems. They don't seem to understand that she's criticizing the nature of advancing the foundations of physics, and not specific good experimental results or advancements in all fields of physics. And she's right, the phenomenological approach to particle theory hasn't generated any successful ideas and neither has String theory / supersymmetry. There is an extreme dearth of dialectical thinking in the field. There are only a small handful of people working outside of the strings paradigm.