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> "You may or may not like this style, I personally like it, but for particle physics it borders on hate. I mean, her arguments have merit, that's why I posted
by ftxbro 3y ago
> "You may or may not like this style, I personally like it, but for particle physics it borders on hate. I mean, her arguments have merit, that's why I posted that but it is true that it makes me a bit uncomfortable."
My understanding is that she is a particle physicist who wants to understand the contradiction between gravity and quantum mechanics, and I feel like you are mixing passion vs. hate. Or you only see the hate and not the passion. She hates that they are wasting so many decades and hundreds of billions of dollars because of stupid reasons like sunk cost fallacy or because of people putting bad faith arguments to continue dead end research paths. I feel like she hates it so much because she loves the science of it and wants to see it resolved, and that she might not get to see it because they are wasting so much time and money. It's like the ones who hate the star wars sequels. Many people might be cold and sarcastic about them but the ones who truly hate them are the fans of star wars.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoThe problem is the vast majority of the physics world disagrees with her on the material points, so her allegations of bad faith and stupidity are themselves incredibly bad faith behavior.
- ftxbro 3y ago> the vast majority of the physics world disagrees with her on the material points Maybe it's true I don't know > so her allegations of bad faith and stupidity are themselves incredibly bad faith behavior. Even if the first thing is true, this other thing doesn't follow from it.
- davrosthedalek 3y agoIt's true, otherwise she would get the funding she demands. Grant money is, in most countries, but certainly Germany and the US, distributed based on ratings of other physicists. The fact that HEP continues to get funding is a reflection of the consensus in the field.