In https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder offers rather scathing (and funny) comments on
particle physics, in which she likens the search for new particles
to zoologists who have developed a computer model of a purple
12-legged spider in the Arctic, and (because it is a testable
hypothesis) argue that a mision should be sent to search for it.
So, what is the general opinion on her article?
On Friday, 30 September 2022 at 20:02:22 UTC+2, Thomas Koenig wrote:
In
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder offers rather scathing (and funny) comments on
particle physics, in which she likens the search for new particles
to zoologists who have developed a computer model of a purple
12-legged spider in the Arctic, and (because it is a testable
hypothesis) argue that a mision should be sent to search for it.
So, what is the general opinion on her article?
Considering that the LHC has found no evidence for
supersymmetry, it is true/quite common sentiment (see
e.g. Arkani-Hamed), that particle physics is in a serious
crisis: and not just particle physics (GR vs QM, and so on).
That said (and since you ask), I have followed Sabine
Hossenfelder for a while on YouTube, she is cute and
funny and a good divulgator, but she is mainly just another
mediatic phenomenon: indeed, IMHO, she understands
(or at least presents) the philosophical and foundational
issues of physics not any better or any more correctly
than the average physicist or even layman does... and
that (foundational and philosophical issues) indeed is
where, fundamentally and for the most part, contemporary
physics is stuck. And not just contemporary physics...
In https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder offers rather scathing (and funny) comments on
particle physics, in which she likens the search for new particles
to zoologists who have developed a computer model of a purple
12-legged spider in the Arctic, and (because it is a testable
hypothesis) argue that a mision should be sent to search for it.
So, what is the general opinion on her article?
In article <9fd7e23e-ede5-4185...@googlegroups.com>,<snip>
Julio Di Egidio <ju...@diegidio.name> writes:
On Friday, 30 September 2022 at 20:02:22 UTC+2, Thomas Koenig wrote:
So, what is the general opinion on her article?
Considering that the LHC has found no evidence for
supersymmetry, it is true/quite common sentiment (see
e.g. Arkani-Hamed), that particle physics is in a serious
crisis: and not just particle physics (GR vs QM, and so on).
Yes, but Arkani-Hamed concludes from that that we need a bigger
accelerator.
In https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder offers rather scathing (and funny) comments on
particle physics, in which she likens the search for new particles
to zoologists who have developed a computer model of a purple
12-legged spider in the Arctic, and (because it is a testable
hypothesis) argue that a mision should be sent to search for it.
So, what is the general opinion on her article?
Bad. While some points might be valid, it is an exaggeration. [[...]]
In article <th771r$sqlc$2...@newsreader4.netcologne.de>, Thomas Koenig <tko...@netcologne.de> writes:
In https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder offers rather scathing (and funny) comments on
particle physics, in which she likens the search for new particles
to zoologists who have developed a computer model of a purple
12-legged spider in the Arctic, and (because it is a testable
hypothesis) argue that a mision should be sent to search for it.
So, what is the general opinion on her article?
Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <hel...@asclothestro.multivax.de> replied:
Bad. While some points might be valid, it is an exaggeration. [[...]]
Hossenfelder also treats "particle physics" as pretty much a single undifferentiated field of study. But it actually has many subfields --
both theoretical and experimental -- with significantly different intellectual traditions, cultures, successes, and (no doubt) failures.
I think reading this news story from /Science/,
https://www.science.org/content/article/showdown-two-huge-neutrino-detectors-will-vie-probe-matter-s-origins
*Clash of the titans*
/The United States and Japan are embarking on ambitious efforts to
wring a key secret of the universe from the subatomic phantoms known
as neutrinos/
Science, volume 377 (29 Sep 2022), doi: 10.1126/science.adf0547
By Adrian Cho
gives a *very* different impression of (one subfield of) particle physics from that conveyed by Hossenfelder.
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