Posts Tagged by Sabine Hossenfelder
Nature editor’s five best 2018 books include two of our favs
| December 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
When Nature’s Books and Arts editor Barbara Kiser’stop five for 2018 came out, #s 1 and 2 were Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder on the troubled state of theoretical physics, of which Kiser says, Lost in Math is a firecracker of a book—a shot across the bows of theoretical physics. […]
Theoretical physicist: Contrary to hype, a larger collider will probably not answer the Big Questions
| December 7, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Physics |
Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, is not enthusiastic about a new video promoting a new, larger collider for CERN. She believes that current, serious problems are being smoothed over for politicians and the public, by general soothing noises that a bigger collider might answer many questions about our universe. […]
Physicist: The ultimate theory will be “geometrically natural”
| November 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Physics |
At her blog, Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, offers a guest post spot to a fellow physicist: No current unified theory includes quantum mechanics fundamentally as part of its structure. But a truly unified theory must. And I believe the ultimate theory will be geometrically natural. Canonical quantum commutation […]
Theoretical physicist: Present phase of physics “not normal” – but stagnation, not crisis
| November 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, acknowledges the seriousness of the situation but isn’t sure that the term “crisis” describes the current situation well: I think stagnation describes it better. And let me be clear that the problem with this stagnation is not with the experiments. The problem […]
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder shares her self-doubts about exposing nonsense in cosmology
| October 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
One must hope that Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, isn’t too worried about the people who criticize her: Let us leave aside for a moment that you have to skip half the book to not notice I question myself on every other page. Heck, if you ask me to […]
Black holes do not behave as string theorists say they should
| September 27, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, explains, Three weeks ago, Steinhauer’s group reported results from a new experiment in which they have now measured the temperature of the fluid black hole: Observation of thermal Hawking radiation at the Hawking temperature in an analogue black hole Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Katrine […]
“Perhaps physics has slipped into a post-empirical era…”
| September 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Physics |
Science writer David Appell suggests this, in all seriousness, in his review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, at Physics World: Hossenfelder confronts physicists to ask them why their ideas aren’t working. Michael Krämer, who heads the new-physics group at the LHC and works on supersymmetry, tells her that he is “honestly […]
Particle physicist: Science is suffering from “baked in” bias
| September 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
From Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, says science has a problem and we need to talk: For the past 15 years, I have worked in the foundations of physics, a field which has not seen progress for decades. What happened 40 years ago is that theorists in my discipline […]
The fight over the universe has turned ugly, with accusations of “cheating”
| August 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Naturalism |
We are told: “Wherever you look in the cosmos, things don’t seem to add up.” And now physicists like Sabine Hossenfelder are accused of cheating: Ethan Siegel, astrophysicist-blogger behind Forbes’ Starts With a Bang! blog, responded with a post titled “There’s A Debate Raging Over Whether Dark Matter Is Real, But One Side Is Cheating.” […]
Will increasingly sophisticated computer simulations “end” theoretical physics as we know it?
| August 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Computing, AI, Cybernetics and Mechatronics, Cosmology, Mathematics, Physics |
Hossenfelder: Perhaps one day, rather than doing calculations, we will just use observations of simplified systems to make predictions.
And now black holes can be ghosts…
| August 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Naturalism, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
From previous universe: In Penrose and similarly-inclined physicists’ history of space and time (which they call conformal cyclic cosmology, or CCC), universes bubble up, expand and die in sequence, with black holes from each leaving traces in the universes that follow. And in a new paper released Aug. 6 in the preprint journal arXiv—apparent evidence […]
How Roger Penrose proposes that the universe can be eternal
| August 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Physics |
For all practical purposes. From the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, at her blog BackRe(Action) According to Penrose’s conformal cyclic cosmology, the universe goes through an infinite series of “aeons,” each of which starts with a phase resembling a big bang, then forming galactic structures as usual, then cooling down as […]
Reader asks physicist: Is there a universe in every particle?
| August 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
The physicist who answers is Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (2018) and she responds, saying (among other things) If you want every elementary particle to each have a universe inside, you need to explain why we only know 25 different elementary particles. Why aren’t there billions of them? An […]
