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\u201cJust the place for a Snark!\u201d the Bellman cried,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As he landed his crew with care;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporting each man on the top of the tide<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By a finger entwined in his hair.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJust the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That alone should encourage the crew.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What I tell you three times is true.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

(from \u201cThe Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in 8 Fits\u201d by Lewis Carroll)<\/p>\n

Sabine Hossenfelder is a German woman with a doctorate in theoretical physics and a YouTube channel full of videos that discuss all manner of scientific and engineering subjects.\u00a0 Her area of research is \u201canalog models of gravity.\u201d\u00a0 So, she\u2019s trying to visualize things like black holes and think up tests to add to our understanding of these outlandish phenomena.\u00a0 And she’s an obvious girl nerd.<\/p>\n

What I like about her popular work (YouTube videos) is that she has no fear of exposing just how dysfunctional modern day physics has become.\u00a0 From dark matter and dark energy to string theory, to futile attempts by particle physicists to invent extraneous particles and then waste untold millions of dollars proving they don\u2019t exist, she exposes the transparent mediocrity and obvious academic make-work that these pseudoscientists are engaging in.\u00a0 They are the hunters of the that altogether mythical snark.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to this video<\/a>.\u00a0 Sabine chronicles the last fifty years of mythical particles that have been proposed and have failed to appear.\u00a0 She describes how the creators of these unicorn particles keep them alive by moving the goal posts whenever the experiments fail to confirm their existence.\u00a0 And finally, she shows how this form of \u201cscience\u201d is basically worthless because it has no chance of asking the right questions needed to extend our knowledge.\u00a0 She uses a couple of graphs with data and then the extrapolations associated with these junk science predictions to show how truly worthless this half century of make-work particle physics has been.<\/p>\n

It is my belief that the only way to bring rigor back to theoretical physics is to use corporal punishment for failures in achieving successful experimental results.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about executions or amputations.\u00a0 Nothing barbaric.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about caning, possibly flogging.\u00a0 No cat o’nine tails, nothing over five lashes.\u00a0 Barely enough to draw blood.\u00a0 All very civilized and calibrated to bring about the desired results.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll be fair.\u00a0 The physicists can decide whether he\u2019d prefer losing his tenure or being publicly lashed.\u00a0 What could be fairer than that?<\/p>\n

All kidding aside, scientific research, not only in this country but throughout the western world, has been stagnating and falling into disrepute.\u00a0 In the social sciences it has degenerated into gobbledygook with the results of the majority of research papers being unreproducible.\u00a0 Doctorates in sociology and psychology are now essentially worthless.\u00a0 Even in the \u201chard\u201d sciences like physics and chemistry but especially in pharmaceutical research progress at answering fundamental problems has ground to a halt.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s very refreshing for someone in the academic world to be out there declaring that the emperor has no clothes.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s not to say I agree with every one of her videos.\u00a0 She had a presentation about hydrogen as a fuel, the conclusions of which I completely disagreed with.\u00a0 But she at least lays out a lot of the facts and that allows an informed viewer to \u00a0judge her opinion based on them.\u00a0 Kudos to Sabine.<\/p>\n

On the more general front of scientific research today, all of this confirms something that has become clear.\u00a0 Government money, especially in the United States has turned academia into a racket.\u00a0 Research is a bottomless pit of money that funds unqualified \u201cscientists\u201d to waste resources without any hope of finding the results they are supposedly pursuing.\u00a0 All they accomplish is creating a bureaucracy of people defending their paychecks via government grants.<\/p>\n

Other than weapons research the United States government needs to get out of the research business.\u00a0 If they want to incentivize scientific progress let them offer large monetary prizes for successful solutions to practical problems in the engineering and science realms, like the fabulous \u201ccure for cancer\u201d we\u2019re always hearing is right around the corner.\u00a0 Even if the results are more incremental than this at least we would stop incentivizing fraud.\u00a0 Until then we will continue to hear about the latest search for the particle equivalent of the snark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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