tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post5370823965792889179..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: No, you still cannot probe quantum gravity with quantum opticsSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84814596959835245602017-11-15T09:29:49.159-05:002017-11-15T09:29:49.159-05:00With the Planck scale being 17 orders of magnitude...With the Planck scale being 17 orders of magnitude higher in energy than the Electroweak scale, it would seem hopelessly beyond our civilization's, or any civilization's ability, elsewhere in the cosmos, to exploit the quantum gravity domain for technological purposes - in the sense of creating localized gravity-like fields, or modifying inertia. This, of course, doesn't rule out David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41805838365200717012017-11-10T11:03:53.317-05:002017-11-10T11:03:53.317-05:00Nature seems to express a language that can be bra...Nature seems to express a language that can be braced as 'radical introvert-ism' due to its shy and unrevealing adamancy and stubbornness. Well, seems to be a veiled groom, waiting us to dive into philosophy of oneness where it can 'ruin' our souls to a form and language understood by nature. This seems a self proclaimed statement! I think post-modernity allows me to apprehend it Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13431750133620702196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-89705155130645992132017-11-10T02:01:46.405-05:002017-11-10T02:01:46.405-05:00@JimV
Kudos to you, and I mean that sincerely. I...@JimV<br /><br />Kudos to you, and I mean that sincerely. It's people like you who will insure our descendants have the same standard of living we enjoy. <br /><br />The energy in fossil fuels is huge, and easily tapped. If we fail, I'm not sure if our descendants can achieve what we have without it, especially if we've taken the low hanging fruit.<br /><br />On the other hand, I&#Liralenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675133437955499435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62332707341628250412017-11-10T01:39:11.335-05:002017-11-10T01:39:11.335-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Liralenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675133437955499435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-35615537988429884972017-11-04T14:50:20.112-04:002017-11-04T14:50:20.112-04:00"....that the LHC will make contact to parall..."....that the LHC will make contact to parallel universes (it won't)..". I confess that I was electrified when I first read about the concept of large extra dimensions as delineated in the 1998 ADD paper, and later variants such as the Randall/Sundrum models. So it's a great disappointment that such concepts appear to have lost their viability.David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15911626678295809232017-11-03T20:39:28.670-04:002017-11-03T20:39:28.670-04:00"Intelligence is not a protection against soc..."Intelligence is not a protection against social and cognitive biases."<br /><br />I agree, not an absolute protection, but I think that intelligence can be used to try to overcome those biases. Otherwise I would be a semi-racist, Evangelical Christian who voted Republican like the rest of my family. I know some stories about scientists who refused to abandon their theories in the face JimVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198704789965278981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-20810956733412371502017-11-03T13:10:19.879-04:002017-11-03T13:10:19.879-04:00Well said, Gene.
Well said, Gene.<br /><br />pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205351999020761180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-69112162313019543592017-11-02T20:35:57.322-04:002017-11-02T20:35:57.322-04:00“It's because of people like you, who support ...“It's because of people like you, who support websites that uncritically repeat nonsense stories, that the world is such a shithole.” Ouch! All this time I thought it was a lack of empathy. Granted, nothing should be read uncritically. How much of what we think is true today will future generations understand as nonsense? We have many blessings now, thanks to science, that our ancestors Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441501664907011282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52422757287626570302017-11-02T03:16:35.043-04:002017-11-02T03:16:35.043-04:00@JimV
What you related is the Tragedy of the Comm...@JimV<br /><br />What you related is the Tragedy of the Commons, a very long-standing problem, of which I'm guilty of myself. I drive a car to my market.<br /><br />However, your comment about the effort about developing self-driving cars seems to assume that someone is in charge of developing a Master Plan. Hopefully you know that isn't true? At least in the US, there is no Master Liralenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675133437955499435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21159015506895854062017-11-02T02:23:09.746-04:002017-11-02T02:23:09.746-04:00JimV,
Intelligence is not a protection against so...JimV,<br /><br />Intelligence is not a protection against social and cognitive biases. In fact, that too many scientist think it is causes a lot of problems. Just because a lot of people believe (share, talk about) a story doesn't mean it's correct. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-57326057699762010952017-11-02T00:32:09.964-04:002017-11-02T00:32:09.964-04:00If you do not fact check then you are accepting th...If you do not fact check then you are accepting things on faith.<br /><br />I don't care how scientific you think you are, if you do that, I will consider you a religious person.<br /><br />That's ok in my book. I am one myself. <br /><br />The pretense that you are not, because somehow a scientist acting like the Wizard of Oz is more believable than a priest, makes me roll my eyes.Liralenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675133437955499435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-70371761965737051422017-11-01T19:27:39.150-04:002017-11-01T19:27:39.150-04:00Well, I do subscribe to Science as well as read ph...Well, I do subscribe to Science as well as read phys.org, so I hope that gives me a "pass"! :0Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04108945551064939734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59494751729774964782017-11-01T13:20:10.641-04:002017-11-01T13:20:10.641-04:00"really the problem is our collective idiocy&..."really the problem is our collective idiocy"<br /><br />Yes. One of the many consequences is that many of us will follow people like Hitler, Stalin, or Trump without questioning our assumptions. By definition, the average IQ is 100, and in my experience 100 is not smart. That was the sense I got from your previous comment about phys.org and I agree with it, as an empirical fact.<br /><JimVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198704789965278981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-60114287255206876112017-11-01T04:58:22.706-04:002017-11-01T04:58:22.706-04:00Rob,
The remark says that on the average all of u...Rob,<br /><br />The remark says that on the average all of us are average and we better take this into account when we make decisions. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-51470543816768168882017-11-01T04:17:41.045-04:002017-11-01T04:17:41.045-04:00Dear Dr B
"Too many of us blame "powerfu...Dear Dr B<br />"Too many of us blame "powerful players" when really the problem is our collective idiocy."<br /><br />I am afraid this is a remark in the line of "half of the people are below average". We cannot fault people for being less able than the best, being playing the piano, sports, science, or politics. In science and politics, the only thing that works is Rob van Son (Not a physicist, just an amateur)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12611755507524401026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4754149558266416922017-11-01T03:23:06.638-04:002017-11-01T03:23:06.638-04:00Steve,
Too many of us blame "powerful player...Steve,<br /><br />Too many of us blame "powerful players" when really the problem is our collective idiocy. Humans did not evolve to comprehend consequences of their joined actions giving rise to emergent trends among billions of us. If you expect free news, they'll be of no value. If you share and support low-quality reporting because you want free entertainment, you're part ofSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58411262571850699172017-10-31T20:53:44.628-04:002017-10-31T20:53:44.628-04:00Come on Bee, get a grip.
Whether or not quantum g...Come on Bee, get a grip.<br /><br />Whether or not quantum gravity can be probed with quantum optics (or any other wrongheaded speculation on where physics goes next) has next to nothing with the "shithole" status of the world.<br /><br />The most obvious thing that does run the risk of creating a real "shithole" globally is the disgraceful 30 odd year campaign waged by vestedStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04108945551064939734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-77011778891487458862017-10-31T16:48:46.532-04:002017-10-31T16:48:46.532-04:00Give me options and I will listen. As though stand...Give me options and I will listen. As though standford library is bad? It is written for a high school reading level.<br /><br />It's going to be hit or miss. You cannot fail at interpretation or the manipulation of concepts. You can prove, in a given discovered structure, a contradiction. You can attempt to replicate results. You can fail to calibrate and instrument.Spaced out Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17048634379034490968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38472015493194094892017-10-31T16:14:47.295-04:002017-10-31T16:14:47.295-04:00Or, Sabine,
A rare instance when, inferentially, ...Or, Sabine,<br /><br />A rare instance when, inferentially, at least, parts of an U.A. post might be broadly comprehensible by earth residents...C_Eleganshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839109084836377401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-30375437942722740272017-10-31T14:25:13.060-04:002017-10-31T14:25:13.060-04:00Uncle Al,
This seems to be a rare instance in whi...Uncle Al,<br /><br />This seems to be a rare instance in which I agree with you. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-20130211808585710222017-10-31T14:24:13.323-04:002017-10-31T14:24:13.323-04:00Peter,
Exactly. I am pretty sure that if you ask ...Peter,<br /><br />Exactly. I am pretty sure that if you ask them how that is that they don't do more footwork it's because they don't have the staff which is because they have no money. So in the end the problem is people who expect that others work for them for nothing. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-27800619517920932262017-10-31T10:05:14.675-04:002017-10-31T10:05:14.675-04:00Re Bee...Social Intent is the triumph of ideas ove...Re Bee...Social Intent is the triumph of ideas over facts. Progressive mentation - Snowflake life, free money, immunity to law, perversity of love, rejection of nationality, denial of objective knowledge - kills civilization. <br /><br />Reality is not a peer note: pneumonic plague in southeastern Africa, 860,000 Yemenis with cholera. "Dark Matter Day" is not harmless if wrong. Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-31781398874970959662017-10-31T09:20:41.367-04:002017-10-31T09:20:41.367-04:00One of the reasons Phys.org isn't very useful ...One of the reasons Phys.org isn't very useful or reliable is that they indiscriminately mix actual "reporting" by their own staff with reposted articles from other sites and regurgitated press releases from university and other institutional PR departments. The only way you can really tell is by looking for an actual byline by a human being at either the top or bottom of the articlePeter Erwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18415612458902079584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52951508446162380102017-10-31T08:13:16.219-04:002017-10-31T08:13:16.219-04:00Sudonym and the others who like phys.org:
It'...Sudonym and the others who like phys.org: <br /><br />It's because of people like you, who support websites that uncritically repeat nonsense stories, that the world is such a shithole. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-66072587446486195022017-10-31T06:07:21.619-04:002017-10-31T06:07:21.619-04:00So what you're saying is that phys.org is like...So what you're saying is that phys.org is like Fox News and Physics Today and Physics World are like the boring boring Financial Times? Given the dullness of this reality, I'd choose fake news any daySudonymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173207662040853886noreply@blogger.com