On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:07 AM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I said. > https://www.patreon.com/posts/worst-prediction-102409950 This is a good example of why I'm not a big fan of Sabine Hossenfelder, she's always right and everybody else is always wrong. In 1967 Yakov Zel’dovich was the first to formally calculate that value of the cosmological constant based on quantum theory, as we currently understand it, produces a value that was obviously 120 orders of magnitude too high. Zel’dovich was not stupid enough to claim that's what the value actually was, he was just pointing out that Physics had a serious problem. And she complains that you only get that 10^120 figure if you assume that the Planck length and Planck mass are important, but if you don't make that assumption then you get a value that is *infinitely* too high. Hossenfelder is a physicist so she knows all this of course, but she loves to be provocative and a contrarian because it's good Clickbait. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> hjw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1F-XD%2B-rB3MCj6HOtyOFPsWCn4FZ4P%3DTexYUhkLPA2fw%40mail.gmail.com.
