Sabine Hossenfelder
German Physicist. Author of "Lost in Math" & "Existential Physics". Creator of "Science Without the Gobbledygook". rt's/shares/likes are not endorsements
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Yes, I've seen the headlines saying that black holes may be dark energy. I think that's extremely implausible. A brief ๐งต 1/ https://t.co/myrZO7PFSi
Einstein did not use the phrase "spooky action at a distance" to refer to entanglement. @csferrie https://t.co/CcPqCToeBh
In this week's video I break with my resolution to not talk about particle physics and explain how we got into the current situation. https://t.co/GKUrZjKdYI
Highly amused by all the comments on my video about how the greenhouse effect isn't simple that complain it isn't simple. ๐ More seriously, simplification is well and fine if there...
Covid in da house ๐ซค https://t.co/kpX8nkWl7W
Peer review isn't "broken", it's just working badly because no one has time to do it properly. Yes, publishing pressure is most of it. That combined with the difficulty of changing...
"The strongest hint we have of the unity of nature comes from particle physics. At high enough energies, the fundamental forces โ gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak...
Physicists fumble together a dark matter model with the explicitly stated purpose of being able to claim it's detectable. Paper gets published, no one even questions the methodolog...
This is a bad idea. Science is not a democracy. The more scientists you poll on a topic the fewer of them will actually understand the topic. Collect arguments, not opinions. htt...
Apropos of nothing, the IPCC is not a democratic body. And that's good because science isn't democratic and shouldn't be democratic. Scientists evaluate evidence, they don't cast v...
Been trying to tell ChatGPT for a week that it's getting latitudes wrong and as a result Toronto is now both north and south of London https://t.co/CdFgyd6ALW
Odd things I learned this Christmas. (a) Macaulay Carson Culkin, aka Kevin-alone-at-home, is now 42 years old and changed his middle name to Macaulay Culkin, so his legal name is...