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Two Novel Independent Dumb Attacks On Physics Inwards Simply 1 Day

Two "mainstream" tidings servers posted their stories based on delusions of cranks yesterday. One of them is supposed to endure pro-business in addition to is owned yesteryear a onetime Republican presidential candidate but it had no work amongst spreading the "ideas" of our well-known Marxist whore Sabine Hossenfelder:
Could No New Particles At The LHC Be Exactly What Physics Needs?
Ms Hossenfelder paints the terminal 43 years of physics equally a failure afterwards some other because the Standard Model has remained important. This continuing success of the theory is something rattling important. The readers are told that "We already know we’ve been doing something wrong" in addition to and therefore on. Your outset big criminal offence took house when yous were born, Ms Hossenfelder, but it doesn't holler back that actual physicists were wasting their fourth dimension inwards the recent iv decades.




What I discovery stunning is the inconsistency of this science-hating Šmoitian vermin. On ane hand, they – including Ms Hossenfelder – accept been screaming for years that theories accept to bargain amongst some novel experimentally demonstrably phenomena. They accept been criticizing theorists, including the world's best theorists, for doing to a greater extent than conceptual work. They accept been organizing whole conferences well-nigh "phenomenology" of hypothetical effects that clearly cannot exist.




On the other hand, these individuals role the success of the Standard Model – in addition to the absence of qualitatively novel phenomena (with exceptions) – equally some form of a vindication of their views. There tin forcefulness out endure absolutely no vindication. This absence shows that everything they accept been proverb well-nigh the correct mode to hit scientific discipline is wrong. Science precisely shouldn't desperately insist that at that topographic point accept to endure experimentally testable novel consequences around every corner.

Physics' destination is also – or primarily – the deeper explanation of the phenomena nosotros accept already observed. And theoretical physicists accept achieved an absolutely amazing progress inwards the foundations of physics during the terminal iv decades, a fact that can't endure "erased" yesteryear the fact that the pseudo-scientific vermin of Hossenfelder's type has contributed to in addition to doesn't acquire this amazing progress at all.

When an experiment generates zero results, we're also learning the data well-nigh Nature in addition to nosotros must endure gear upward for whatever form of a lesson. On the other hand, zero results enjoin us less novel information well-nigh Nature because the survival of the Standard Model to higher energies has ever been plausible.

The probability believed yesteryear particle physicists inwards 1973 that the Standard Model would endure sufficient for all accelerator experiments published yesteryear June 2016 could accept been 30%. We may say that this "30% of the probability pie" became real. So nosotros accept learned something similar \(-\log 0.3\approx 1.2\) nats of information. However, if in addition to when the experiments get down (or would begin) to hit deviations from the Standard Model, nosotros could larn bytes or much to a greater extent than of novel data well-nigh novel physics. We would genuinely endure told which novel physics is right. We could encounter a confirmation of a item paradigm/theory whose prior probability was precisely 0.1% – that would give us \(\log 0.001\approx 6.9\) nats of information. We could fifty-fifty discovery phenomena that no theorist was imaginative plenty to fifty-fifty speculate about. The data ane could larn from such experimental finding could endure priceless, inwards some sense.

It's non shocking that particle physicists to a greater extent than oft than non regard the confirmation of the zero hypothesis – the Standard Model, inwards this illustration – to endure less interesting than a novel finding. We're learning nontrivial positive data inwards both cases but the data inwards the illustration of novel phenomena beyond the Standard Model would but endure to a greater extent than interesting.

The terminal 2 sentences of that Forbes rants are genuinely combative:
Sometimes things accept to acquire genuinely bad earlier they tin forcefulness out acquire better. That’s why for me no-bump is the most hopeful outcome.
But things are exclusively bad amongst messed upward lying parasites similar you, Ms Hossenfelder. You may "hope" that something incorrect volition move on to physics (it's prissy that yous told us in addition to therefore candidly) but naught incorrect volition ever move on to physics in addition to therefore that existent physicists would drib to your degree – it's to a greater extent than or less physically impossible.

H5N1 left-wing tidings outlet, NPR, started amongst a "provocative" championship yesterday:
Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
The destination of this slice of crap is two-fold: to repeat some vague in addition to incoherent bitter talking points well-nigh physics; in addition to to promote a book yesteryear 2 crackpots, the notorious Lee Sm*lin in addition to his unknown appendix, "philosopher" Roberto Unger. The 2014 mass offers some "deep" ideas such equally the proffer "time is real". I can't imagine what classify of losers are wasting fourth dimension amongst similar "literature".

To brand things worse, we're also taught that "mathematics is selectively real" – which basically agency that yous should supersede some 50% of inquiry that depends on mathematics yesteryear the feces coming from Sm*lin's in addition to Unger's rectums. Thank yous rattling much, I volition acquire out on without this "selection". And at that topographic point must endure "just ane Universe". Unfortunately, the cranks don't accept whatever declaration for their assertion in addition to no interesting thought at all.

Instead, the NPR slice tells us well-nigh a "crisis inwards physics". The give-and-take appears twice. The readers are also told that "the crisis is existent – in addition to acute". The words "is existent – in addition to acute" remind me of the phrase "the climate modify is existent – in addition to acute" – I justice that the same form of a left-wing propagandist dirt is behind both. To brand things fifty-fifty "better", the Amazon.com page of the mass also tells us well-nigh a "crisis inwards cosmology".

There is no crisis inwards physics or cosmology in addition to the individuals spreading these memes are science-hating parasites in addition to charlatans. I am absolutely disgusted yesteryear the vogue of tidings outlets – whose destination should endure to inform the readers – to allow similar pests to spread this low-brow, hateful, anti-science misinformation in addition to fifty-fifty promote their books. Something must endure done well-nigh this infestation.

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