Physics is still in crisis

[Michael Mozina]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ7jwevZbb4

Sabine's new video is obviously a plug for her book, but it also highlights the serious problem that has been going on in physics for some time now. Over the past fifty years, physics has strayed far from empiricism, so much so that it's been stuck in a "dark" metaphysical rut now for over four decades. Nothing new has "learned" in the field of physics for at least four decades, albeit lot of new metaphysical nonsense has been written about and postulated. None of it has panned out however in the lab. In fact the LHC pretty much ruined the party for metaphysics. No new particles have been found, so particle physicists are scrounging around hoping to find some small deviations from the predictions of the standard particle physics model.

Rather than being actual "scientists", and being willing to return to the drawing board in terms of astronomy, outright denial and confirmation bias have become the two primary crutches in physics.

The stagnation effect is quite palpable. There are of course *empirical* explanations for "dark matter" and we now know that 'dark energy' is more than likely just a optical illusion related to living in a less dense region of space. There no willingness by the mainstream to address these issues however, so here we sit, spinning our wheels, learning nothing new at all, and pretending to have "explanations" where none actually exist. It's so sad to watch.

[JP Michael]

You should put all these critiques in a single forum topic named "Mozina's Menagerie of Meditations for the Misdirected Mainstream"

[neilwilkes]

For anyone wondering, the book is really good. When I first read it, I started out getting all annoyed about the references to Dark Matter/Energy and all the rest of the mythological cosmological menagerie, but should not really have worried too much as she is merely showing what she was taught and how it turned into where she is now.
Highly recommended.