Last week's science news examined (weekly episodes, Sabine Hossenfelder)

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https://youtu.be/xa_PN7XjsTs

INTRO: Today we’ll talk about the 50-year anniversary of Apollo’s blue marble, the Square Kilometre Array, talking to robots, the Yellowstone volcano, nanoparticles that help with carbon capture, a forest bubble – on Mars, a new method of spacecraft propulsion, tests for cancer, earthquake tracking from space, and of course, the telephone will ring. 

Nov 14, 2022 - Yellowstone Volcano Has More Liquid Magma Than Scientists Thought

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xa_PN7XjsTs

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https://youtu.be/Zr0Q_LGrQcg

INTRO: In today’s episode, we’ll talk about the recent nuclear fusion headlines, and a new result from the Webb telescope. Then we’ll have a special guest, @frasercain, who’ll tell us what we learned from NASA’s Artemis mission. After that, we’ll talk about remote controlled magnetic slime, why atmospheric methane levels increased during the COVID pandemic, non-fogging glasses, algae that might replace beef, the toughest material on earth, self-organised nanobots, dark photons. And of course, the telephone will ring!

Dec 21, 2022 - Nuclear Fusion Reaches Ignition, Dark Photons, Remote Controlled Magnetic Slime (oh yeah) & More

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Zr0Q_LGrQcg

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https://youtu.be/zVD99JF-dfE

INTRO: Welcome back everyone, I hope you had a good holiday break. We have quite a lot to talk about today, so buckle up. First, we have an anomaly in particle physics that disappeared and an anomaly in cosmology that was confirmed. Then we have some amazing footage from the surface of the sun, disks that defeat the second law of thermodynamics, we learn how you can see something without looking at it, talk about a new method of cooling, the demise of science, the technology of 6G, what offshore windfarms do to marine life, and of course, the telephone will ring.

Jan 11, 2023 - New Cosmology Anomaly Confirmed, Particle Physics Anomaly Vanishes

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zVD99JF-dfE

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Sabine justifiably takes a hiding:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/sa...r.1048994/
See p1 #6 post there, and following.

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Time dilation and acceleration..
It does seem to be a rather elementary misunderstanding/mistake for a professional physicist.

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Sabine justifiably takes a hiding:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/sa...r.1048994/
See p1 #6 post there, and following.

Time dilation and acceleration..
It does seem to be a rather elementary misunderstanding/mistake for a professional physicist.

It also concerns one of her stand-alone videos unconnected with the "science news" series posted in this thread. Which is to say, if there's a need for a thread devoted specifically to trashing Hossenfelder or addressing content outside the vids of this topic, then we should probably create it elsewhere. Rather than allow a developing but unplanned process to hijack this one for such purposes (these things can incrementally emerge without anyone being motivated beforehand toward such, or intending _X_).

We have it from a couple of the "esoteric cult gurus" at PhysicsForums themselves that apparently any physicist (notable ones included) who mediates to the public ("pop-sci") is probably going to make potential errors, or generate misunderstandings just via the imprecision of ordinary language.

"Ugh. This is why I don't watch popsci about anything I know anything about. I always end up wanting to write ten page essays correcting it."

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"[...] This is why such videos are not suitable material for discussion of GR on here. You are attempting to understand physics by getting the right words in the correct order. Physics is only unambiguous when it gives a precise mathematical model and quantitative answers to specific questions."[1]

If they don't want members posting videos like that, then don't invite her to an interview and heap praise.

Interview with Theoretical Physicist: Sabine Hossenfelder
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/i...senfelder/

We are pleased to introduce Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist from the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Sabine also authors a very popular physics blog called backreaction.

Did they even recently twitter about that 2017 interview again, or is the "Jan 9, 2023" of this tweet just my misperception? https://twitter.com/physicsforums/status...5057490944

I mean, the administrative clergy and/or its circle of groupies over there should strive for coherence about their views: Do they gather in clusters for pissing contests on popular science or not?

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[1] Sounds like that common sophomoric clique which laughs at the technical nomenclature of other professions that they're unfamiliar with, but then somehow believe a public in the same fix would magically apprehend the abstractions they scribble as anything other than gibberish or symbol-salad (and accordingly switch channels on). Or a category of hecklers who are just too scared of making mistakes themselves ("OMG, I can't have a pop-sci tag pinned to me!") to ever be mediators between science and the public.

typical response: "Oh, but we're grooming proper physics students in our online workshop."

And who originally lured wide-eyed kids and tweens in the direction of science with tidbits of fascination, accumulatively placing them at your doorstep? Science communicators (Prometheus) willing to risk wrath on high from the Abstruse Priesthood.

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When the news concerns Sabine herself - where better than Sabine's weekly news thread?
I don't see that this has any particular bearing on her news beyond introducing an element of 'buyer beware' which is always the case.

While an aspiring physicist might well want to know more - there doesn't seem to be any probability of their knowing 'everything' or that everything will be known within their lifetime so the news is of small steps - not always in a forward direction.

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When the news concerns Sabine herself - where better than Sabine's weekly news thread?
I don't see that this has any particular bearing on her news beyond introducing an element of 'buyer beware' which is always the case.

While an aspiring physicist might well want to know more - there doesn't seem to be any probability of their knowing 'everything'  or that everything will be known within their lifetime so the news is of small steps - not always in a forward direction.

Was just a "nip-it-in-the-bud" precaution, in case this otherwise ran for a couple of weeks and several pages or something. Doesn't really matter though, as it (potentially) turning into a topic about Sabine herself and/or a video unrelated to this thread is probably the only activity the latter will ever see, anyway. I shouldn't have mentioned it.

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When the news concerns Sabine herself - where better than Sabine's weekly news thread?
I don't see that this has any particular bearing on her news beyond introducing an element of 'buyer beware' which is always the case.

While an aspiring physicist might well want to know more - there doesn't seem to be any probability of their knowing 'everything'  or that everything will be known within their lifetime so the news is of small steps - not always in a forward direction.

Was just a "nip-it-in-the-bud" precaution, in case this otherwise ran for a couple of weeks and several pages or something. Doesn't really matter though, as it (potentially) turning into a topic about Sabine herself and/or a video unrelated to this thread is probably the only activity the latter will ever see, anyway. I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Agreed. All the comments to the article cited in PhysicsForums, but made at Sabine's own YouTube site vid in question, were gushing with praise. None afaik picked up what should have been an obvious error.
So imo kudos to the 'priesthood' at PF for providing a corrective. Sabine's reputation will hardly suffer irreparable harm - few outside of PF will ever get to be aware of the faux pas.

Much more famous physics notables have made the occasional slip so she's in good company. Calm down CC.

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[...] Much more famous physics notables have made the occasional slip so she's in good company. Calm down CC.

Then consider this thread an appropriated dumping ground for any other miscellaneous items like that.

See something Sean Carroll flubbed? Post it here. Along with Kip Thorne, Leonard Susskind, Lisa Randall, etc.

IOW, shouldn't limit that kind of WEEKLY "science news" WRAP-UP to just Hossenfelder.

What exemplifies an infertile topic better than the only post ever addressing a specific video having nothing to do with those here, but with an unassociated one submitted to another forum?

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RIP

Here lies

Last week's science news examined (weekly episodes, Sabine Hossenfelder)

Oct 22, 2022 to Jan 17, 2023