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You shouldn't pay too much attention to the hate, what you find interesting is intensely personal and few others will ever understand. Foundations is in a much better spot than it …

Scientist isn't a job title or a qualification, it's a word for someone doing science. Some philosophers working in quantum foundations deserve to be called scientists, as much as …

This is not entirely correct. I can't say on this "retrocausality" stuff in particular, but more generally in quantum foundations, there are a lot of philosophers with a very solid…

I read it in high school and quite liked it then, now I am worried that if I revisit I would find it too simplistic how it handles the relationship between science, politics, and r…

I can tell you from personal experience working in these barns that it really is that crowded, and it isn't pleasant in there for either chickens or humans.

Maybe you were thinking about this science studies work [0]? Not a journalist, but a sociologist, who became something of an "expert" in gravitational waves. [0]: https://www.natur…

This joins a growing list of other anomalies in the standard model, such as muon g-factor, neutron lifetime, and W boson mass. The problem is that these anomalies don't seem very u…

If we knew what to expect, it would be engineering not science. The fact is, we have tried having expectations, most notably supersymmetry, and those haven't turned out very well b…

The state of physics these days is we have 100 physicists of Einstein's calibre alive right now, but not enough experimental data for them to make any headway on fundamental questi…

There's other physics to do, but it's not fundamental physics. The science questions for which we need accelerators can't be answered any other way.

I would have to look up Maxwell's equations right now if I needed them. Nevertheless, I am confident I have a good understanding of them. What I have in my head are important relat…

In all of my physics classes (high school, undergrad, grad), we were allowed to have a formula sheet with whatever we wanted written on it. Furthermore, important equations would j…

Silly question: will the Waymo AV use the horn? I see a few parking lot incidents where another driver backed into the front of a stationary Waymo AV at ~2 mph. I think a human dri…

To my knowledge, what's happening here is that there is a single phenomenological input, the equation of state, which is relevant in both neutron stars and heavy ion collisions. Di…

Could you briefly summarize one of the reasons you think QM is incomplete? I would agree with you that there is no reason to expect coherence to scale, but I don't know of any reas…

If you were to ask experts in a given subfield which papers are reliable, I'm sure they would be able to tell you. The problem is that there's no process in science for expert cons…

This is a good summary. Only thing to add is that the Higgs particles are basically oscillations on top of the background value of the Higgs field, just like photons are oscillatio…

These are what originally got me into physics. For physics enthusiasts who have exhausted most pop physics content but aren't looking to get a full degree, there isn't much better …