Particle physics – a brief history of time-wasting? Why Sabine in controversy?

Sabina Hossenfelder apniphysics.com

Sabine has a PhD in physics, published more than eighty research articles on various topics of physics eg., quantum gravity, particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics, statistical mechanics, and quantum foundations.

She is currently a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt, Germany

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Sabine has written two books which get popular in to the knowledge society. Her first book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray” was first published in USA, by June 2018.

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Why she wrote in Guardian 30th September 2022 about particle physicists and accelerator again ? Does counter attack on Sabine is an attempt to justify the particle physicists failurity?

Sabine have anger on the failure of theoretical models/methods developed to predict the particle and new phenomena, if not able to predict why not these models discarded?

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If particle physicists’ method of theory-development isn’t working, they should analyze why it happening, and must change their methodologies. But she is saying this isn’t happening at all.

She is asking why the current models are going to fail while often predicting new particles and what improvements are made in the existing models?

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Being a theoretical physicist she is not in favor 100% of successful theoretical predictions made earlier were the ONLY way that progress happened in the particle physics. She also agree that progress can happen by experimental discoveries.

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Sabine, is frustrated by particle predict based modeling which is going fail again and again, and still particle physicists following the same procedure (theoretical models) to discover new particles, at the cost of public funds.

Particle physics – a brief history of time-wasting? Why Sabine in controversy?

Sabine has a PhD in physics, published more than eighty research articles on various topics of physics eg., quantum gravity, particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics, statistical mechanics, and quantum foundations.

She is currently a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt, Germany

Present Work

Sabine has written two books which get popular in to the knowledge society. Her first book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray” was first published in USA, by June 2018.

Why she wrote in Guardian 30th September 2022 about particle physicists and accelerator again ? Does counter attack on Sabine is an attempt to justify the particle physicists failurity?

Why Sabine says wasting of time and money on investing particle accelerator?

Sabine have anger on the failure of theoretical models/methods developed to predict the particle and new phenomena, if not able to predict why not these models discarded?

Anger or Support

If particle physicists’ method of theory-development isn’t working, they should analyze why it happening, and must change their methodologies. But she is saying this isn’t happening at all.

She is asking why the current models are going to fail while often predicting new particles and what improvements are made in the existing models?

She is asking why the current models are going to fail while often predicting new particles and what improvements are made in the existing models?

Being a theoretical physicist she is not in favor 100% of successful theoretical predictions made earlier were the ONLY way that progress happened in the particle physics. She also agree that progress can happen by experimental discoveries.

Two Points

Sabine, is frustrated by particle predict based modeling which is going fail again and again, and still particle physicists following the same procedure (theoretical models) to discover new particles, at the cost of public funds.

Sabine suggest that theoretical development should focus on resolving inconsistencies, and stop wasting time on pseudo-problems.

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