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Is this article not a peer review? Written by Sabine Hossenfelder. German theoretical physicist. "An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics

• podiki 3y ago
  A peer review and a popular article exploring the proposal, though written by someone pretty qualified, are not the same thing. At the very least the audience and evidence presented are not nearly the same.
• scotty79 3y ago
  I think this theory is wrong about the sources of randomness. But it's super cool that they show that a bit of randomness could explain dark matter and energy. Personally I believe that the randomness might come from chaotic "background" gravitational waves from sources outside of universe and from times before Big Bang.
• mr_mitm 3y ago
  No. Peer review is an established process in which the editor chooses usually two to four expert peers who review the paper. It is double blinded to reduce bias. It is also not the point of peer review to judge the correctness of the theory. Reviewers check relevance, novelty, plausibility, consistency, overall correctness of methodology. "I think this is wrong" is not something an editor would accept as an argument not to publish. That's something you can write in a new paper. And I don't think Hossenfelder would like to see it not published just because she thinks it's wrong.