A Spiritual View

The German female theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder talks about the state of affairs within the scientific community and so-called "bad science" in a video on her YouTube-channel. Take a look. She even calls physicists and the way research is conducted today corrupt, nonsensical and without integrity. Let's take a look at it and see if there's a way to understand what's going on – and it may well be different from her frustrated point of view. My view on this question Sabine (and others) may be angry about the state of affairs within the physics community today. But there is another way to look at this. Do you know of anything else where the more effort you make, the result is the same?  This means that if 30 people over 30 years gain extraordinary new insights in a field, what will it not be like if 100,000 people work in the same field? Will discoveries happen 3,333 times faster or be 3,333 times more extensive? No, they might be a little more detailed...

"Ta-da! We've also quit tobacco and successfully stopped smoking with the help of TABAC!" Photo: Tatiana Vychegzhanina, Ukraine, on Colourbox. For hundreds of years – almost back to the discovery of America – tobacco has been used as a soothing remedy for nervousness, anxiety, and inner turmoil, allowing those afflicted to experience a moment of 15 minutes of tranquility – before they need to take another cigarette and repeat the treatment. For centuries, the tobacco industry has been the supplier of this short-term soothing product for this ailment. But alas, the remedy has never had a permanent effect. The patient has had to continuously consume this medicine to feel well once they started – it is a remedy that creates addiction without solving the real problem, as the patient have to continue taking this remedy hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Researchers within the tobacco industry have been aware of this for decades. In the long run, it becomes expens...