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I just started watching (and enjoying) Sabine's YouTube channel after one of her posts were shared on HN the other week. I am surprised to find so many people

by k2xl 4y ago

I just started watching (and enjoying) Sabine's YouTube channel after one of her posts were shared on HN the other week. I am surprised to find so many people here have negative opinions on Sabine. I've probably seen a dozen videos about the double slit experiment but her explanation about it (and why the other videos were not precise/accurate) was really eye opening for me as a layman. Also her explanations about delayed observer not being as "weird" as people claim was also very helpful in demystifying quantum weirdnesses. She seems like a competent physicist with strong opinions that are grounded in some basis - can someone elaborate why they don't like her points of view? Are they problematic scientifically or do they just not like her style of rhetoric?

ravi-delia 4y ago
She's a contrarian physicist. Every good physicist has one weird opinion, but she's collected every one of them and used them to beat anyone in hearing range over the head. No single take is far from the norm, but in terms of layman's content it's easy to get a really warped idea of the dominant paradigm. Honestly I think fewer people would have an issue with her if she was like 80% less abrasive, no matter how out there her ideas are. So keep watching, but be aware that there are conflicting viewpoints with more significant backing.