Comment on References: [1] out of his ass
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 1 day agobrave enough to keep a discussion grounded in reality
But that’s just it, he doesn’t keep the discussing grounded in reality. He speaks on things that are vastly out of his purview and says shit that is blatantly false because he thinks he’s an expert on everything just because at one time he did real theoretical physics. Even with physics, he says things for a “general audience” that are so dumbed-down as to be insulting, but worse, grossly inaccurate, leading people to have their misconceptions further ingrained rather than doing what a science communicator should do and clarify misconceptions.
string theory hasn’t panned out mathematically
That math pans out fine. The problem is that it can pan out in virtually an infinite number of different ways that may or may not be valid descriptions of the universe, and nothing but the math can get panned out wrt string theory, at least with current tech or tech that is conceivably feasible.
hansolo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
Compared to some of the more woo folks, he at least, in as far as I’ve seen, doesn’t just make up random stuff. Following a through line of hard cope futurism gets normal people engaged. That’s the difference between Star Trek and Three Body Problem. Star Trek retcons plot devices into vague science slop. Hard science scifi extrapolates the world based on what we know. What is the actual harm in taking something amazing and using that as the base from which to discuss practical applications in the future? That’s still science fiction because it’s simply not real life.
I really don’t understand the hostility towards someone genuinely qualified to make a basic statement on something as poorly understood as dark matter being upsetting to you.