Sabine Hossenfelder

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String theory and reconciliations

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Analysis Science Albert-László Barabási Carlo Rovelli demarcation problem George Ellis Joe Silk loop quantum gravity Massimo Pigliucci Peter Woit Philosophy of Science Richard Dawid Sabine Hossenfelder scientific method string theory surface area

According to particle physics, the fundamental building blocks of the universe are point-like particles, essentially small dots of energy with no dimension. String theory posits that these dots are ac…

On resource constraints and merit

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Analysis Science Big Science Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Science and Technology India-based Neutrino Observatory ISRO Jadugoda jugaad let teachers teach NASA particle physics R&D funding resource constraint Sabine Hossenfelder Sean Carroll Superconducting Super Collider Swarnajayanti Fellowships transparency Vannevar Bush

In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some scientists pushed back asking which of the male laureates who had been selected…