tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post2507837799631330636..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Book rant: “Universal” by Brian Cox and Jeff ForshawSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8138283666740776722017-04-09T17:33:23.502-04:002017-04-09T17:33:23.502-04:00Sabine,
My own wife said exactly the same thing. ...Sabine,<br /><br />My own wife said exactly the same thing. Both of you must be right!TheBigHenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917973198063733316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-50984833376380417622017-04-09T12:15:05.029-04:002017-04-09T12:15:05.029-04:00s.
Well, thanks for the interest, but of course t...s.<br /><br />Well, thanks for the interest, but of course there's only one sexy man in the universe and that's the man I'm married to. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-31498363384640573912017-04-09T04:00:44.304-04:002017-04-09T04:00:44.304-04:00"The last time I thought of Brian Cox – befor..."The last time I thought of Brian Cox – before receiving the review copy of this book – it was because a colleague confided to me that his wife thinks Brian is sexy. I managed to maneuver around the obviously implied question..."<br /><br />This had me laughing out loud. And now enquiring minds must know, where would you place him on the curve? Clearly, Neil deGrasse Tyson is top shelf,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28235233137336824492017-04-07T08:02:44.412-04:002017-04-07T08:02:44.412-04:00Zafa,
I did not defend Sabine who absolutely did ...Zafa,<br /><br />I did not defend Sabine who absolutely did not need me to do it but women in general ; "Laughter, like jesting, is pure joy, and therefore, provided it is not excessive, it's good by itself. And it is certainly a savage and sad superstition that forbids pleasure. On the other hand, the raillery which participates in hatred is reprehensible.", Spinoza.<br /><br />TheNicolas Pouparthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17722878242014554884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-90110993922832868012017-04-07T02:21:31.805-04:002017-04-07T02:21:31.805-04:00Your right, and I apologize. I need to stop the si...Your right, and I apologize. I need to stop the silly joking.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01705175878443427037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-46278958452950163392017-04-07T00:48:43.316-04:002017-04-07T00:48:43.316-04:00Zafa,
Well, then my apologies for misunderstandin...Zafa,<br /><br />Well, then my apologies for misunderstanding and thanks for clarifying that you are indeed a jerk. I have no idea what 'bucks' you are referring to, and I have never defended MOND - if you'd actually read anything I wrote, you should have noticed that I have repeated ad nauseam that modified gravity isn't the same as MOND. As to your question regarding the Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-35049150854498867562017-04-06T16:13:56.940-04:002017-04-06T16:13:56.940-04:00Sounds like a good book :)!Sounds like a good book :)!Andrew Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075608749064975687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9931462412209665062017-04-06T15:33:05.605-04:002017-04-06T15:33:05.605-04:00Let's hope Zafa was indeed just sarcastic. I a...Let's hope Zafa was indeed just sarcastic. I am probably over-sensitized as I spent way too much time on Scott Aaronson's blog, where after Trump's elections, you got a parade of blatant antisemitic posters on display.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14479459346584756683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38372306466118991522017-04-06T14:56:20.396-04:002017-04-06T14:56:20.396-04:00nicolas, john, Henning - You guys certainly put me...nicolas, john, Henning - You guys certainly put me in my place. Good work in defending the little lady, admirable but superfluous.<br /><br />Ms Hossenfelder - Your laughter was my intent as you suspected. I've long admired your clarity, insight, lack of BS, humor, and profile. However, your pouring cold water on NASA's glee in "proving" the existence of CDM via the observed Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01705175878443427037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-36363379291823856212017-04-06T05:34:34.761-04:002017-04-06T05:34:34.761-04:00Everyone will hate my book anyway, I might as well...Everyone will hate my book anyway, I might as well just be myself ;)Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-26023125970914906792017-04-06T04:28:56.317-04:002017-04-06T04:28:56.317-04:00It's refreshing Bee doesn't play the usual...It's refreshing Bee doesn't play the usual game of "I'll give your book a good review if you give my book a good review, and then I can stick one of your quotes on the back of my book" which everyone else seems to play.Andrew Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075608749064975687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4344603005025317922017-04-06T02:58:58.087-04:002017-04-06T02:58:58.087-04:00Guys,
I appreciate your support, but I interprete...Guys,<br /><br />I appreciate your support, but I interpreted Zafa's comment as sarcasm. Even if it's not, it made me laugh. Having said that, I don't think I'm being "mean" to anyone. I read a book, I tell you what I thought about it, that's it. I'm sure Cox will get sufficiently many nice reviews from people who don't understand what the book is about. BestSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79108799718570977072017-04-06T02:48:44.972-04:002017-04-06T02:48:44.972-04:00Zafa Pi, I am sure Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw are ...Zafa Pi, I am sure Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw are big boys, rather than precious vulnerable snowflakes who will end their lives because Bee was mean to them. Surely they'll be able to handle some rhetoric.<br /><br />You, on the other hand, seem to be incapable to pass up an opportunity to put your hypocrisy and small-mindedness on display. <br /><br />It is good that Bee let this comment go Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14479459346584756683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83255235078166379022017-04-05T12:58:00.602-04:002017-04-05T12:58:00.602-04:00Zafa: science needs reason to be trusted. Zafa: science needs reason to be trusted. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55702136410894623142017-04-05T07:31:20.708-04:002017-04-05T07:31:20.708-04:00Zafa,
At least Sabine remains consistent in the l...Zafa,<br /><br />At least Sabine remains consistent in the limit of the inconsistency of the facts. It is difficult to produce more inconsistency in the same paragraph, that is to say, to defend tolerance on the one hand, and on the other, the most vulgar misogyny. A inconsistent specialist is certainly worse than a coherent incompetent.Nicolas Pouparthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17722878242014554884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59548764760489572752017-04-05T01:34:15.653-04:002017-04-05T01:34:15.653-04:00Oh dear. You begin with seductive rapture, then a ...Oh dear. You begin with seductive rapture, then a couple of gentle discreet corrections, and by the end you totally trash the book, kicking it to the curb. If one of the authors commits suicide I trust you will step forward and apologize to his wife and children, especially if inflation is proven correct.<br /><br />This why we have worked so hard to keep women out of science.<br /><br />I await Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01705175878443427037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71387832899903817472017-04-04T10:27:41.097-04:002017-04-04T10:27:41.097-04:00“hampered by insufficient computing power” Misdir...“<i>hampered by insufficient computing power</i>” Misdirected by “beautiful” truths.<br /><br />http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/dark-energy-illusion<br />...Relativity covers accelerating cosmic expansion.<br /><br />Trace chiral anisotropic spacetime torsion doping spacetime curvature covers baryogenesis, the Tully-Fisher relation, Chern-Simons correction of Einstein-Hilbert action. Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8752596171285542092017-04-04T07:37:40.657-04:002017-04-04T07:37:40.657-04:00What I find most surprising is that with the numbe...What I find most surprising is that with the number of arguments for and against a purely gravitational effect the use of Hegelian epistemology (Héraclite in fact : thesis, antithesis, synthesis) does not prompt an author to express all the facets of the sitution and come to the conclusion that the truth probably lies halfway.Nicolas Pouparthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17722878242014554884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-35238252220547326312017-04-03T11:00:12.704-04:002017-04-03T11:00:12.704-04:00https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
...Real...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind<br />...Reality has a quantum mechanics-hinted substructure active as intelligence.<br /><br />A telepath emerges, surrounded by 7.2 billion emitters. Said telepath flashes murderously insane at the NOISE! A telekinet emerges, and has a nightmare. The Earth (5.972×10^24 kg) collapses to an electron Fermi-degenerate (10^4 kg/cm³) ball 64.9 miles in Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-78919400372758195322017-04-02T20:48:59.008-04:002017-04-02T20:48:59.008-04:00How about an article rant? Look at this
https://a...How about an article rant? Look at this<br />https://aeon.co/essays/materialism-alone-cannot-explain-the-riddle-of-consciousness<br />My son has autism. Are we now going to question whether his condition isn't caused by a material defect in the brain? The brain is hard to understand because it's complex, not because of an interpretation problem with quantum mechanics.<br />ThanksRalphBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17707439196791621030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-408924068404116612017-04-02T17:06:14.386-04:002017-04-02T17:06:14.386-04:00"For me, the fascinating aspect of astrophysi..."<i>For me, the fascinating aspect of astrophysics and cosmology is that it connects the physics of the very small scales with that of the very large scales, and allows us to extrapolate both into the distant past and future of our universe. Even though I’m familiar with the research, it still amazes me just how much information about the universe we have been able to extract from the data PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84887851299535585262017-04-02T09:19:06.253-04:002017-04-02T09:19:06.253-04:00stor,
Well, I have given you my reasoning while y...stor,<br /><br />Well, I have given you my reasoning while you don't seem to have any, so I don't see the point in continuing this exchange. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53923117209425601962017-04-02T07:22:40.242-04:002017-04-02T07:22:40.242-04:00"Like that or not, modified gravity is the ma..."Like that or not, modified gravity is the main competitor of particle dark matter. "<br /><br />I agree again. But again, like it or not, I don't see a reason to include it in this book.storhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08963157059325167335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76844882065712401802017-04-02T06:32:23.877-04:002017-04-02T06:32:23.877-04:00I share your sentiment Sabine, and then some. I share your sentiment Sabine, and then some. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44079580909268032332017-04-01T07:50:21.147-04:002017-04-01T07:50:21.147-04:00I haven't read this book but I welcome your co...I haven't read this book but I welcome your comments, Sabine. For many years, various theories have been touted as "fact" (i.e. as though firmly supported by evidence) by parts of the physics community. That then gets passed on through popular science and the press until some distorted version is believed by the majority of people. For instance, "parallel universes" Tony Proctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330460400737261264noreply@blogger.com