"I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research
as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote
it myself."
Sabine Hossenfelder has been on what I'd call a 'physics crank' arc of late.
Believing her one expertise can be substituted for another in fields like sociology and economics. I expect this paper to fit that mold, rather than being a return to the academy.
I'd be happy to be wrong in this case, but I'm rather skeptical.
Unfortunately, I lack the qualifications to speak to the merits one way or another.
Sabine Hossenfelder these days is a YouTube personality, who likes to discuss subjects she's not an expert in. I don't know if that's the metric for "crank", but anything I hear from her is taken with a massive grain of salt.
“We know from Bell’s theorem [7, 8] that any locally causal
model that correctly describes observations needs to violate
measurement independence. Such theories are sometimes
called ‘superdeterministic’ [9, 10]. It is therefore clear that
to arrive at a local collapse model, we must use a superdeterministic approach.”
I only got the first 1/2 of my physics degree before moving on to CS, but to me this reads as “We know eternal life can only be obtained from unicorn blood, so for this paper we must use a fairytale approach.”
I also understand she is considered controversial as she's been criticizing the scientific community, mostly on how they get funding and how they pick research direction.
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Sabine Hossenfelder has been on what I'd call a 'physics crank' arc of late. Believing her one expertise can be substituted for another in fields like sociology and economics. I expect this paper to fit that mold, rather than being a return to the academy.
I'd be happy to be wrong in this case, but I'm rather skeptical. Unfortunately, I lack the qualifications to speak to the merits one way or another.
I only got the first 1/2 of my physics degree before moving on to CS, but to me this reads as “We know eternal life can only be obtained from unicorn blood, so for this paper we must use a fairytale approach.”
She has a popular science channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder/videos
I also understand she is considered controversial as she's been criticizing the scientific community, mostly on how they get funding and how they pick research direction.
From little I understood from it in this paper she is basing it off the Penrose QM-GR interpretation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_interpretation