Sabine Hossenfelder
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Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdh
German Physicist. Author of "Lost in Math" & "Existential Physics".
There is no strength in numbers, have no such misconception.
rt's are not endorsements
I don't understand why this nonsense ever spread so far or why anyone is taking it seriously, but if you need someone to say it's all nonsense, here we go: it's all nonsense.Terrence Howard is on some esoteric stuff when speaking to Joe Rogan about the periodic table of elements and its relationship with sound. Can anyone verify what he's saying?- And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics does not go to physics...
- I wrote my PhD thesis about "Large Extra Dimensions". I didn't want to use the abbreviation LED, so I called them LXD. When I moved to Arizona -- almost exactly 20 years ago -- I got "LXD" as my licence plate. This is me at age 28.
- 50,000 astrophysicists: "The universe is 13.7 billions years old." One guy in a press release: "Maybe it's 26.7 billion years?" Twitter: SEE I TOLD YOU ALL OF SCIENCE IS WRONG!
- The ongoing bird-flu disaster in the US is blowing my mind. They're causing a new pandemic, scientists have been jumping up and down for almost a year yelling DO SOMETHING, but no one listens.
- I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs. I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it. They continue to fabricate links, references, and quotes, like they did from
- I've said it before but I'll say it again: phasing out nuclear power was the dumbest thing the Germans have ever done.
- friend told me that the jeans he's been wearing for the past 20 years are going to be discontinued by the manufacturer, so he went and bought two dozen pairs and says they'll last for the rest of his life
- breakthrough: string theorists have found way to calculate pi
- Everyone who thinks the world could just stop using fossil fuels on the snap of a finger should have a look at this chart. More than 80% of the world's energy supply presently comes from oil, gas, and coal, and that number has barely changed in the past decade. Of course we will
- I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things. They say they did a computation on a ca 100 qubit chip much faster than a conventional (super)computer could do. The particular calculation in question is
- Asked Grok 3 to explain Bell's theorem. It gets it wrong just like all other LLMs I have asked because it just repeats confused stuff that has been written elsewhere rather than looking at the actual theorem.
