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That’s a passive aggressive ad hominem without any substance whatsoever. These people are not some obscenely rich opportunists in power. They are working scien
by dgb23 4y ago
That’s a passive aggressive ad hominem without any substance whatsoever.
These people are not some obscenely rich opportunists in power. They are working scientists, who draw public interest because they say interesting things and they are part of a larger discourse.
Now Hossenfelder isn’t known for her fingerspitzengefühl when it comes to criticizing others, but I have yet to find an instance where she doesn’t treat the subject matter with the utomst respect it deserves.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoI will always get onboard to boost Hossenfelder. She respects the subject matter and also the students, and it impresses me a lot to see it in practice.
- linksnapzz 4y agoAlso, Lee Smolin's been public about his opinions for...at least 25 years now, that my memory serves, so it's certainly not opportunism on his part.
- dekhn 4y agoI don't think her analysis of LIGO made any sense at all.
- stevenhuang 4y agoElaborate?
- dekhn 4y agohttp://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-up-with-ligo.html http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-up-with-ligo.... Her claim is that there isn't enough secondary validation to truly conclude they detected gravity waves. the community disagrees and is building more detectors. The creators of the project were awarded Nobel prizes. At best, she raises some interesting questions but the narrative that the data isn't sufficient really doesn't work.
- patrick451 4y agoYou're just pitting argument from authority against itself. The "community" is often wrong. Do you have a technical challenge to her position?