Re:I stopped working on black hole information loss
by bsder on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:13PM
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> Sabine’s niche seems to be a confident cynicism or learned skepticism and is a much appreciated addition to the space.
I think Sabine has settled into a niche with a few other physicists of "If you don't even have a hope of testing your theory, what's the point? Let's direct those resources into things that can be tested sometime in the next century."
Theoretical physics seems to have a few arenas where it has just completely left the realm of reality. It's not even like "Well, maybe we can test these in a few years when technology gets better" but more like "We would need 15 orders of magnitude more energy than exists in the universe to test this."
I think Sabine has settled into a niche with a few other physicists of "If you don't even have a hope of testing your theory, what's the point? Let's direct those resources into things that can be tested sometime in the next century."
Theoretical physics seems to have a few arenas where it has just completely left the realm of reality. It's not even like "Well, maybe we can test these in a few years when technology gets better" but more like "We would need 15 orders of magnitude more energy than exists in the universe to test this."