I know it’s a weakness of mine. I do enjoy listening to this intelligent, honest woman with a wonderful German accent lambast these fake scientists for wasting time, money and lives in a racket that must be shut down. And not just in physics. All of the academic disciplines that produce nothing useful but are subsidized by our money to the tune of billions and billions of dollars must be defunded.
Kudos to Sabine for saying it out loud.
Yeah, I saw that; I’ve watched her for years. Her casting is to be expected, I suppose. One can’t expect to denounce ones entire ex-industry as charlatans and money whores without significant pushback. But high energy physics along with several other fields are finding that exponentially more money is required for ever smaller incremental gains.
The present vein of knowledge is close to tapped out, a paradigm change is desperately needed.
Well, when the law of diminishing returns has crushed a field of study it’s time to end the gravy train and encourage students to study something more useful. We can’t afford a hundred thousand theoretical physicists speculating on what the multiverse looks like. Maybe they can learn a trade.