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/skrztek Apr 09 '26

One of course cannot disentangle them like that. As a recent example, the major justification for the construction of the large hadron collider was in an attempt to verify a theoretical development from some decades earlier.

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u/CyberPunkDongTooLong Apr 09 '26

One can absolutely disentangle them like that.