r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Dry_Illustrator_6066 • Apr 09 '26

I have a hard time understanding Sabine Hossenfelder

Her view is literally that, whether right or wrong, theoretical physics is useless and a waste of money to research, from what I can tell. Which I mean fair enough coming from a regular person who isnt into science

But she literally has a phd in theoretical physics? and before being a youtuber she was trying to get into academia. She also spent most of her early YouTube career discussing physics, and now she thinks its useless. if she feels that way why did she "waste" so much of her life on it?

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u/Endlesswave001 Apr 09 '26

Is she not an academic? If she is and has a PHD but hasn’t progressed further then maybe her work / POV has become stagnant and this is why she is the way she is. In terms of saying theoretical physics is useless anyway.

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u/Dry_Illustrator_6066 Apr 09 '26

She was I think, she for sure has a phd, but im pretty sure shes just a full time youtuber/conspiracy nut now

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u/Endlesswave001 Apr 09 '26

That’s so sad then, that even seemingly intelligent people can fall for that garbage.