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I think Dr. Hoffstader enjoys making these controversial, click-bait videos. They probably go a long way toward paying the bills! She is well-aware that until w
by taylodl 4y ago
I think Dr. Hoffstader enjoys making these controversial, click-bait videos. They probably go a long way toward paying the bills! She is well-aware that until we reconcile GR and QFT then we don't have the final word on anything. Even so, we've yet to observe anything traveling faster than the vacuum speed of light - and we've been looking!
- pieter_mj 4y agoIt's Sabine Hossenfelder but I get the mistake.
- naikrovek 4y ago> I get the mistake. I don't.
- bogdanstanciu 4y agoprobably mix up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
- naikrovek 4y agoah, now I get it. sorta.
- GistNoesis 4y agoI would have guessed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hofstadter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hofstadter fictional character of the TV show Big Bang Theory that usually attract physics enthusiasts, but your guess is better.
- throwaway81523 4y agoI thought of Robert Hofstadter, who won the Nobel physics prize in 1961 and was Douglas Hofstadter's father.
- taylodl 4y agoI did not know that!
- taylodl 4y agoYes. That's who I get her confused with. Gödel, Escher, Bach was an incredible book for me to read early on in my career.
- low_tech_love 4y agoI love how OP made the mistake and then everyone repeated it! I wonder if that indicates something.