Comment by srid

Comment by srid 2 days ago

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In my understanding, one reason Sabine gets readily attacked (as user `cardanome` does here) is because of her criticism of orthodox physics theories. She has famously exclaimed that all cosmological theories supposing a “beginning” of the universe are essentially “a creation myth written in the language of mathematics”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618719

jiggawatts 2 days ago

Read the linked blog post by Sabine again. That’s not what she says at all.

She’s saying something much more specific about the earliest moments (milliseconds!!) of the history of the universe, and before that time, of which we have practically zero observational data, and can’t ever visit even in principle.

She’s arguing against woo, against science fiction, against unsupported what-if musings that are fun to talk about — but are not science.