Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdh · Europe
Sabine Hossenfelder is followed by The State of Israel for research and subject expertise coverage connected to Germany in the Europe chapter.
I was offered money to scare you of AI. And I'm not the only one. https://t.co/gTGc9bHMYJ
If you trust the headlines, then every country on the planet is warming faster than the rest, which can't possibly be true, can it? I've had a look at the headline-making papers. https://t.co/byZ4MIRkEm
An experimental collaboration has reported what may be the first detection of a dark matter particle. I have a brief summary: https://t.co/MhATDW74nc
Yes indeed. Because if physicists would sit down and think about what "extraordinary claims" actually means, they would realize that all their thousands of nonsense theories for dark matter and dark energy and the origin of the universe etc are "extraordinary claims" without any "extraordinary evidence" and they should never have appeared in the scientific literature. Why? Because these ideas contain loads of assumptions which are UNNECESSARY to explain the existing evidence. These unnecessary assumptions are the "extraordinary claims" that have no "extraordinary evidence". Physicists are cooking up increasingly contrived "dark sectors" with self-interactions and dozens of particles and multiple phases and portals and what not. It's not science. It's mathematical fiction. Extraordinary claims. No extraordinary evidence. They then try to justify this with the idea that "it's testable, therefore it's science". But: NONO, YOU HAVE IT BACKWARD. POPPER SAID IF IT'S NOT TESTABLE, THEN IT'S NOT SCIENCE. This does NOT mean that if it's testable, it's science. The past 40 years of bullshit publications in the foundations of physics are almost entirely based on this trivial logical mistake. Just because it's testable doesn't make it scientific! It's a basic misunderstanding of the philosophy of science that no one wants to fix because then they'd have to stop publishing their drivel. And I've pointed this out for a decade already, so at this point they can't even pretend they don't know that what they do is scientific rubbish. They know. They continue it anyway because most of the public hasn't caught up on it. This is why you see idiotic new dark matter proposals and similar nonsense in press releases every other day. It's of course the same with most UAP explanations, just with less maths. The warp drive is a good example because that the microscopic object that moves through the atmosphere has anything to do with "warp drives" is completely irrelevant. The relevant part is that it somehow dumps energy into the atmosphere. Most of these problems would disappear if physicists started their papers with listing all assumptions that they made and then explaining why they are necessary . https://t.co/HfYYkECzp4
Physicists may have made a huge mistake when they introduced dark energy. That is what a team of mathematicians say after looking at the equations. Because they find that, actually, it’s unnecessary. If they are right, that would be the ultimate embarrassment for physicists. https://t.co/ZyhAaFDHa3
A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had written off as fundamentally flawed. It’s the first new idea in nuclear fusion design for decades. https://t.co/H2sXpYYdza