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=== 2022 ===
=== 2022 ===
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|content=I spent a lot of time in beautiful homes and second homes of older research scientists as a grad student.
We should be embarrassed how far into [[The Precariat|precariousness]] we pushed Generation X & Millennials. Our entire economy is now bet on bargain science provided way below market.#Enough
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|content=Keep your mouth shut or lose job security.
Sometimes @skdh drives me nuts. Usually, it’s in a good way. Can no one  with money or power fix this situation? No? Of course not. You want science slaves. How’s that working in virology?
Somebody get our scientists wealth & [[Academic Freedom|freedom]].
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|content=Of course the vast majority of people who work in the foundations of physics want me to stop pointing out they are working on pseudoscience. Of course I know that this means I will never get a permanent position.
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=== 2023 ===
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|content=@skdh I acknowledge my desires as you see from what I wrote. But a stagnant community always wants outcomes. It wants SUSY. Or [[String Theory|Strings]]. Or some g-2 muon anomaly. Etc.
I want too. But what I want is mostly just a desire to get the BS out of physics so we can get back to succeeding.
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|content=Now I feel completely alone.
I want our wanting out of this story. I have a huge dog in this fight. I spend every day fighting my own human desire for GU to be proven correct.
I believe this is how [[String Theory|String Theorists]] stopped being scientists.
I just want our data & the physics.
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|content=I want this to be real.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft
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|timestamp=4:36 AM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|content=If biological aliens were here from others star systems in crafts that defy the current physics of the standard model and, more importantly, general relativity, I would be one of the few people who would have a guess on day one as to how they must have gotten here. It’s tempting.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|content=I don’t think biological interstellar alien visitors using GR and the SM make much sense. So I try to have a war *inside* my own mind as to what is true. I have a genuine “Need to Know” as to whether this is BS NatSec space opera disinformation theater. Because to me, it is data.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|content=What just happened isn’t data. It’s that a sober individual just pushed one of the many longstanding highly conserved NHI narratives collected from *many* diverse sober NatSec informants over the sworn testimony line. And it gets a LOT crazier from here. But it’s not science yet.
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|content=As I‘ve been saying, there is so much deliberate NatSec BS out here that our own scientists are being propagandized. We’re drilling holes in our own scientists’ lifeboat. Last time we saw this it was virologists/immunologists/epidemiologists being gaslit. Now it’s physicists.
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|content=Let me be very careful in what I am about to say. We have at least the appearance and optics of scientific self-sabotage. And wanting things to be true is how science dies.
I fight like hell to promote my theory. But I’d sign on to another to know the truth if I was wrong.
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|content=We may be looking at the birth of a new UFO religion. Or a moment of contact. Or a long running Disinformation campaign. Etc.
To go beyond GR, let’s be scientists & get NatSec out of our data first. Where is our data pruned of space opera disinformation and cultic religiosity?
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|content=What I want to know:
Why was the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Amendment]] passed?
Why did [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]] fake a [[Labor Shortages|labor shortage]] in our MARKET economy destroying American STEM labor markets?
What stopped the [[General Relativity|Golden Age Of General Relativity]]?
Why was the SSC really cancelled?
[[String Theory|StringTheory]] & STAGNATION: WTF?
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|content=What the hell was the [[The Secret History of Anti-Gravity and Quantum Gravity Research|1957 Behnson funded UNC Chapel Hill conference]] actually about?
Why are we not stopping to QUESTION [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] after 70 years of public *FAILURE* inspired by Babson-Behnson patronage of RIAS, the Institute of Field Physics and the precursor to Lockheed?
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|content=This is the 50th year of stagnation in the [[Standard Model|Standard Model Lagrangian]]. It is AS IF we are deliberately trying to forget how to do actual physics. Everyone who has succeeded in Particle Theory in standard terms is now over 70. This is insane. In 25 years there will be no one left.
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|content=Why are we not admitting that quantum gravity is killing physics and is the public respectable face of  1950s anti-gravity mania that lives on to murder all new theories in their cradle?
[[Quantum Gravity]] is fake and works to stop actual physics.
There. I said it. Now let’s talk.
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|content=If you want to know whether there are biological interstellar visitors here observing us, the short answer is “Almost *certainly* not if they are using our current stagnant non-progressing  theories of physics.”
Let’s finally get serious about this whacky subject? Thanks. 🙏
|timestamp=1:44 PM ¡ Jun 7, 2023
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|name=Sabine Hossenfelder
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|content=I swear I didn't write my tweet to make you feel alone and I'm genuinely sorry if that was the result. That said, I think it's better to acknowledge one's hopes and desires than to pretend they don't exist and thereby overestimate one's own rationality.
|timestamp=8:26 AM ¡ Jun 9, 2023
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|timestamp=3:40 PM ¡ Jun 9, 2023
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=== 2024 ===
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|content=[[Anything But Physics|“Anything but Physics”]] has tremendous predictive power.
We can discuss Spin Foam.</br>
Or Boltzmann Brains.</br>
Or 3D Chern-Simons.</br>
Or [[String Theory|Strings]].</br>
Or Alien warp drives.</br>
Or Quantum computing.</br>
Or Calabi-Yau manifolds.</br>
Or Machine Learning.</br>
Or Tenure/[[Peer Review|PeerReview]]/Grants.</br>
Etc Etc
But not physics.
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|content=And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics does not go to physics...
|timestamp=10:00 AM ¡ Oct 8, 2024
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=== 2025 ===
=== 2025 ===
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|content=Many of you are asking me to comment on this video.
I was trying very hard not to do so.
@skdh has not been treated properly by the physics community in my opinion. We are generally in agreement and I recommend her.
She is now bigger by herself than all of @bgreene’s World Science Festival. And I believe that she has to think through  these comments at her new scale.
Bottom Line: @skdh is far more in the right than her critics will acknowledge. But she is now at a new scale and these remarks are misleading in my opinion.
Fundamental Physics is, to me, what Mars and Rockets are to @elonmusk: man’s only hope for long term survival.
My belief is that @skdh is now so negative based on her egregious treatment at the hands of her community that her righteous position is  actually endangering physics itself in the era of @DOGE.
I would consider debating her as a friend to give a more positive view.
Her and my tormentors in physics are our enemies basically because they are '''precarious'''. And '''precarious scientists are dangerous'''. Should we starve them or pay them?
@skdh and I agree that there are a lot of shitty physics folks behaving badly. Sabine is closer to saying cut off the bad scientists. I am closer to saying “We have a Fauci problem in physics. Get rid of the means by which our ‘Faucis’ control us by making their colleagues '''precarious'''. Wealth is the solution to the ethics crisis in physics. The physics community that brought you the wealth of the modern world cannot be controlled by our Fauci’s. Honor the community by freeing them from economic tyranny and the problem gets solved in a positive manner.”
I despise the cowardly enemies of science, and of Sabine. In my opinion they are bullies and cowards really only because they were wrongly made '''precarious'''.
We desperately need our physicists. Free them. Pay them. Free them from our Fauci’s.
I would be happy to debate Sabine (and @bgreene, @seanmcarroll, @michiokaku and others) on this. It’s literally life and death to me in the long term [See my pinned tweet.] and Sabine is wildly too negative here. Happy to defend this.
🙏
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|content=I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia.
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|timestamp=3:00 PM ¡ Feb 15, 2025
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