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Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

Sabine is describing 3 separate practices. A) Predicting extremely poorly motivated particles to stay busy. B) Predicting seemingly Ad Hoc solutions where there is a genuine need long before there is motivation (e.g. the Higgs particle). C) Predicting Well-motivated particles. — PolitiTweet.org

Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh

It's 2022 and I still have particle physicists coming at me defending searches for particles they have invented tha… https://t.co/zy94CllPl4

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@MimeTravel I’m not. But there is only one way to find out. — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with her wholeheartedly on A). I hope she just means A). Because she would be dead wrong on B) & C). The Yukawa couplings & quartic potential of the Higgs as stated are extremely ad hoc. And seemingly correct. I don’t think she would ever make that error scientifically. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 14, 2022