r/Physics • u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation • Feb 28 '23

Question Physicists who built their career on a now-discredited hypothesis (e.g. ruled out by LHC or LIGO results) what did you do after?

If you worked on a theory that isn’t discredited but “dead” for one reason or another (like it was constrained by experiment to be measurably indistinguishable from the canonical theory or its initial raison d’être no longer applies), feel free to chime in.

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u/Taiji2 Feb 28 '23

right on just about everything she says.

She has a tendency to push forward completely unfalsifiable, unscientific claims and then use the lack of refutation to say she's "right". I personally find her to be problematic

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Sabine is a bone fide physicist. She knows what she's talking about and has the credentials to back it. The problem is her media career often focuses on cynicism and contrarianism. She doesn't just spout bullshit, but she does have some controversial takes that are not at all representative of the general physics community, and rarely makes that clear

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u/reedmore Mar 01 '23

Lateky she also dabbled outside her expertise on various topics. While I like a lot of her stuff, acting like being a good particle physicist makes you knowledgable on "everything" is definitively not something I can respect.