Sabine Hossenfelder: That New Theory of Everything is Lost in Math!

Sabine Hossenfelder thinks most new theories of Everything are useless. She also dislike CERN’s plans for a new particle accelerator. She has a PhD in physics and is presently a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. She is a sort of Physics Cassandra, ominously warning in her book "Lost in Math" (Basic Books, 2018) that the pursuit of &and naturalness is leading physics astray. But what exactly does this mean for experimental physicists such as myself? Leave a comment below and let us know if you agree with Sabine&final warning: "But whether or not we will find something, it is already clear that the old rules for theory development have run their course." 0:00 - Introduction 05:00 Lost in Math: what was her motivation in writing it? 13:00 Is a beautiful experiment really a problem? 14:00 Why some theorists don&understand what they are doing according to Sabine 19:00 Dirac and the myth of the &genius&exacerbated by the Nobel Prize 20:00 Hype and how popular science gets done 24:00 No go theorems: what are they and why are they important? 28:00 Karl Popper and falsifiability 32:00 What&her scorecard for SUSY? 48:00 Sabine&advice on how to succeed in physics: focus on inconsistencies! 🏄♂️ Watch my most popular videos: -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Plays the Race Card!" -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-