In the
previous post in this blog, I discussed the current absence of great men in
many fields of human activity; in particular, in science. Shortly after writing
that post, an
interview with Sabine Hossenfelder in a major Spanish newspaper (La
Vanguardia) made me see that I’m not alone in denouncing the crisis of science,
at least in the field of theoretical physics, which includes theories about the
multiverse, about which, a few weeks ago, I published another
post.
Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist. She has lately become
news by publishing a book: Lost
in Maths: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (2018), where she asserts that
theoretical physics has progressed practically nothing in the last 60 years,
and advocates dedicating public funds to research the fundamentals of quantum
mechanics, rather than squandering them on colossal particle accelerators or in
research on baseless lucubration, such as string theory and multiverses.
