28 October 2018

I wrote Sabine Hossenfelder about Lost in Math

and sent a comment to her Backreaction blog. I like her, because she is passionate about fundamental physics, because she wrote the preprint https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.02176.pdf, because she dislikes string theory and the multiverse, and on top of all this she dislikes certain less than kind Czech bloggers.

I had written her that Lost in Math is a good book. It explains that researchers got lost because of too much math, and too much apparently "beautiful" math. I added that the trouble seems to start with the idea that the standard model is 'ugly' (as I wrote a few posts ago). Finding an argument showing that the standard model is beautiful would be the best solution: it would change the situation completely, and it would discourage young researchers from taking the wrong path.

Unfortunately, she did not approve my comment. I will try again another day.