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#I'm like agnostic about PHONONS  I totally believe in photons
random2908 · 3 years
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I know I’m always like “I don’t believe in wormholes” and “the Planck length is specious” [wait, did I never post that on tumblr? there’s no way I never posted that, I guess I have to rectify this; apparently I do talk about it a bit in the tags here] and “I don’t believe in dark energy” and “I don’t believe in string theory” and “the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics is not science” [here, here, here, and other places undoubtedly].
But what I think doesn’t come across is I’m not even a skeptic. Like, I can be like “I don’t believe in wormholes” and my coworker, who also has a PhD in physics, will reply with “yeah, black holes are fake!” and I have to walk it back because actually, I do believe in black holes! I don’t believe in string theory, but I also don’t disbelieve in string theory, I just think the whole endeavor is way off the rails. You have to understand, within the actual professional physics world, I’m a moderate about this stuff.
But then pop physics is so breathless about it all, and they never stop to say, “but actually this is controversial and most physicists don’t believe in it.”
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