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Sabine Hossenfelder

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 15, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Media
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Sabine Hossenfelder makes it to Slashdot

Denyse O'Leary
January 15, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Media
Hossenfelder: What we have here in the foundation of physics is a plain failure of the scientific method. All these wrong predictions should have taught physicists that just because they can write down equations for something does not mean this math is a scientifically promising hypothesis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 31, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
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Ethan Siegel asks at Forbes, Did God create the universe?

Denyse O'Leary
December 31, 2019
Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
Siegel makes an interesting comparison with, say, Sabine Hossenfelder. He does great graphics but to say that he is not a deep thinker is to shower him with imprudent praise. By contrast, we go on listening to Hossenfelder with great interest, whether the graphics are good or not. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 8, 2019
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Sabine Hossenfelder on why the Anthropic Principle is controversial

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2019
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
It’s controversial because it is sometimes used to support the idea of a multiverse. Otherwise, it should be common sense to assume that a venue in which we exist must feature conditions that allow for that. But the multiverse does not need logic, evidence, or science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 11, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks, How can we test a theory of everything?

Denyse O'Leary
November 11, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Hossenfelder: But there is no reason to think that the forces of the standard model have to be unified, or that all the forces ultimately derive from one common explanation. It would be nice, but maybe that’s just not how the universe works. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 31, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder: There is a crisis in physics and it may spread to other sciences

Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Many science writers probably like the current state of affairs because nonsense about the multiverse and space aliens is easy to write. Artists might like it because it is easy to illustrate. Only if you cared about physics would you want to spoil the party. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 8, 2019
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Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder on the future of particle physics

Denyse O'Leary
October 8, 2019
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Hossenfelder: The standard model works just fine with that number and it fits the data. But a small number like this, without explanation, is ugly and particle physicists didn’t want to believe nature could be that ugly. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 18, 2019
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Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon responds to Sabine Hossenfelder on the hologram universe

Denyse O'Leary
September 18, 2019
Intelligent Design
Sheldon: ... it isn't just HEP theory, it is large swathes of all the sciences. They have painted themselves into a sterile, but formerly well-funded "consensus" corner, and are discovering that the younger generation (and the NYT) is quite flippant on their prospects for survival. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 18, 2019
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Cosmology, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Why some scientists think the universe is a hologram

Denyse O'Leary
September 18, 2019
Cosmology, Physics
Her view: “Personally I think that the motivations for the holographic principle are not particularly strong and in any case we’ll not be able to test this hypothesis in the coming centuries. ” And in our next post, experimental physicist Rob Sheldon replies. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 4, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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At Nature: The “bizarre logic” of the multiverse is explored in a review

Denyse O'Leary
September 4, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Crease writes as if he would very much like to buy into Carroll's ideas but still thinks that sanity has something to offer. Possibly, many establishment science figures teeter on that brink. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 12, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Artificial vs human intelligence: Sabine Hossenfelder offers us 10 differences

Denyse O'Leary
August 12, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
As AI types like to say, the system is so easily fooled because it doesn’t “know” anything. We are slowly learning, in consequence, more about what it means for a human being to “know” something. Read More ›