"My goal is to be correct. Or at least my goal is to help you the listener and me the podcaster in our mutual goals of becoming more and more right about the real world," he says. "Sometimes that involves being edgy and creative and rebellious and heretical ... Sometimes it involves understanding why the establishment has the point of view that it does." The solo podcast will cover what I think about the claims that physics is in crisis right now.
Physics is in crisis, what else is new? That's what we hear in certain corners, anyway, usually pointed at "fundamental" physics of particles and fields. (Condensed matter and biophysics etc. are just fine.) In this solo podcast I ruminate on the unusual situation fundamental physics finds itself in, where we have a theoretical understanding that fits almost all the data, but which nobody believes to be the final answer. I talk about how we got here, and argue that it's not really a "crisis" in any real sense. But there are ways I think the academic community could handle the problem better, especially by making more space for respectable but minority approaches to deep puzzles.
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/31/245-solo-the-crisis-in-physics/
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