Sabine Hossenfelder: What Went Wrong with Fundamental Physics
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
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🗓️ 7 December 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Recently, there's been a huge hubbub, and I'm sure you're aware, regarding the purported |
| 0:04.0 | crisis and physics. I had an interview with Sean Carroll, and he defended academia. |
| 0:09.2 | His defense, though, wasn't just out of allegiance to academia. To me, it seemed a counterpoise |
| 0:15.5 | to the growing societal mistrust in science, and he sees that as a detrimental trend. |
| 0:21.2 | Today, I would like us to focus on not only the stagnation in fundamental physics, |
| 0:25.8 | which is a specific claim, but perhaps the crisis in physics in general, maybe even science |
| 0:31.6 | as a whole, and I'd like to hear what you have to say. I'll bring up objections as they |
| 0:36.2 | occur to me, perhaps other people's |
| 0:38.2 | objections as well. And I want to hear your objections to those objections, and we can even get |
| 0:43.8 | into the issues of causes and solutions. Okay, well, why don't you distinguish the crisis in |
| 0:49.1 | fundamental physics versus the crisis in physics, and then we can get to science afterward. And also, |
| 0:55.6 | what is meant by crisis? Because I made a claim of stagnation to Sean Carroll, which is different |
| 1:01.3 | than Christies. Right. So it's actually, when I give talks about this, this is always the first |
| 1:07.1 | thing that I say. Like, I don't like talking about crisis. I talk about stagnation |
| 1:11.6 | because it's clearer what it means. A lot of people actually think, like, if we had a real |
| 1:19.0 | crisis, that would be a good thing because the crisis is an opportunity for a breakthrough or something, |
| 1:25.6 | so we would know what to hit on but that's not what it is so |
| 1:29.5 | to me it I think calling it a stagnation is much more accurate because that's what I see we're |
| 1:37.3 | just not going anywhere we're just you know like on a treadmill pretending we're running but not making progress. |
| 1:47.7 | So I actually can't remember I've ever talked about, you know, the crisis in physics overall |
| 1:54.3 | because I don't really know a lot about exactly what's going on in physics overall. It's just such a huge |
| 2:02.6 | field with so many sub-disciplines. So I tend to focus on what I call the foundations of physics |
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