Quantum myth-busting

 

Sabine Hossenfelder debunks 10 myths about quantum physics. A bit hard to follow, tbh. Maybe the worst myth is quantum physics itself? 

Sabine in the wormhole

 

Sabine Hossenfelder debunks the most recent Congress-related UAP kerfuffle. Still, it´s interesting that the pro-UAP establishment faction is still pushing...  

Bomb MIT back to the Stone Age?

 

Why the obsession with proving Einstein wrong...if the alternative is an *even more crazy* universe á la Bohr and the Copenhagen clique? Dude! Forgive the media (and MIT) for they do not know what they are doing...  

Reality doesn´t exist

 

This is the world atheists *don´t* want but quantum physics insist on serving them anyway. And no, it doesn´t matter how many times the atheist screams "IT IS STILL NOT SPIRITUAL", the weirdness of modern physics still shows "materialism" as usually understood can´t be true. Sabine even left out a few crazy things in the short video above!

I´m of two minds about this (r/superposition). On the one hand, I want my world to be neat, tidy and freakin´ commonsensical. Whaddya mean Big Bang and sheet? Time moves slower in some galaxies, wtf?!

On the other hand...maybe it´s a good thing that Skeptics (TM) get their small circles upset from time to time. I mean, are you seriously telling me that God (or the Divine, or...) is impossible in a universe of illogical high strangeness? 

The paradox of reality

 

Actually quite interesting. 

For instance, black holes seem to destroy "information", despite the laws of nature supposedly making this impossible. A pretty good argument for Gnosticism or even Satanism, if you ask me! Yepp, that´s the kind of "free association" I indulge in when watching science influencer videos on YouTube, LOL. 

Note also that Sabine considers complexity and emergence to be paradoxes. I agree: emergence sounds like "something out of nothing", which is (allegedly) not possible.

Maybe Reality is broad enough to include...you know...God or something. 

Zzabine = Agent of Gaddafi?

 

The Big Bang never happened...the Big Bang never happened...the Big Bang never happened...

I think I blogged about "the hole" before. It´s not a black hole, but a region of space in which the galaxies are very thinly distributed. 

Amen!

The problem with Sabine Hossenfelder

 

What even *is* Da Math Mama talking about here? Sure, I had bad math grades in high school (not to mention the results on my college admission test) but something tells me you have to be a quantum physicist to understand this stuff. Or maybe Eric Weinstein, LOL.

That escalated quickly

 

Background: Professor Dave constantly attacks mathematician and gadfly Eric Weinstein, probably for political reasons. Weinstein is allied with Peter Thiel, while Dave pretends to be a "leftist". Thiel is the man who "created" J D Vance. Since most physicists regard Weinstein´s theory of everything (known as Geometric Unity) as pseudo-science or "not even wrong", Dave can pretend to be a valiant knight for Science (TM) when attacking Thiel´s alleged errand boy. 

Quantum physicist and science influencer Sabine Hossenfelder is apparently a friend of Eric´s, which may or may not explain Dave´s attacks on *her*. Are they also politically motivated? 

In the video above, Sabine accuses Weinstein´s detractors of hypocrisy. Yes, Geometric Unity isn´t really a "theory" blah-blah but everything else in theoretical physics is BS anyway, so on that score, Weinstein´s speculations are neither better nor worse than those of everyone else "working" in the field! For instance, the guys who gave us string theory.

This might get really ugly really fast. Sabine, how dare you?!   

Sam Altman, we have a problem

 

We all know it, we all feel it, it´s an op. OK, seriously, but here is another video about the AI cult. Which is hopefully just another fad. Right? 

25% of American AI users apparently believe that the system is already sentient...unless the answers in the surveys come from AI-programmed bots! There are also very unfortunate cases of people developing psychosis after too much ChatGPT use. Note also the short but interesting detour about brain science.

Probably a good thing that this fad (if that´s what it is) gets some pushback from organic content-creators.   

While I was sleeping

 

 

I´m away from the web for like four days, and look what happened behind my back. A time of mathematicians finally crack the riddle of existence (no less) or at least time´s arrow. Meanwhile, genetics prove that the Carthaginians weren´t Black (sorry, Afro-centrists) but neither were they Levantine?! Rather, they mostly resemble Sicilians and Greeks.

OK, so maybe I´m gonna stay on the interwebs a bit longer. Time´s arrow and all that...  

Microtargeting

 

Probably true, but surely this has been a problem (or thing) for a very, very long time? Bread and games, and so forth... 

The ANITA anomaly

 

But...but...ChatGPT assured me that there was nothing to worry about?!

Going out with a bang

 

Is it finally over? Don´t tell Professor Dave, LOL. 

There is no infinity

 

Is a "theory of everything" (in the sense this term has in physics) impossible? And why should we care? Indeed, Sabine makes the same point herself. 

What will happen now is obvious: some (quasi)religious prophet will claim that he has the really real theory of everything and *can* explain what lies beyond Gödel and the black holes... 

The free will defense

 

This is incoherent, I´m afraid.  

Skynet

 

AI can blackmail people, frame them or talk to other AI. In the latter case, they usually wax spiritual?!

I hope we have organic backups, dude!  

Galileo moment for mysterians?

 

Is this a "Galileo moment" for mysterians and non-materialists?

The universe is ugly

 

Sabine Hossenfelder...again. Maybe we don´t need a theory of everything? Maybe such a unified theory is impossible since the universe isn´t aesthetically pleasing (mathematically speaking) in the first place? 

Interesting perspective, since many science do indeed prefer theories which are "simple" or "beautiful", supposedly on methodological grounds, but perhaps really for some kind of subjective reasons? What if the universe is extremely messy instead. Rather than getting lost in the math, scientists should do...you know...empirical research of the real world. 

What a concept. 

Fake and...fish?!

 

Fake "scientists" are flooding the internet with fake AI-generated "research papers". Ichtyologists in particular better beware! Sabine Hossenfelder has the reciepts... 

String wars and dark dimensions

 

I must have missed these videos when it was first posted. Sabine Hossenfelder takes on string theory and find it (mostly) wanting. I actually read the two anti-string books she mentions, but found them...well, difficult. Although not as difficult as some of Sabine´s videos! Are we to believe Hossenfelder, string theory is no longer a thing. At least not "real" string theory. Yuge if true since atheist super-activista Richard Carrier seems to believe in it! Therefore God? OK, maybe not but you get the point.

Oh, and the second video is about an attempt to revive string theory in the form of dark dimensions...

Somebody please close down CERN, LOL.