On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 6:05:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 31 Oct 2019, at 17:56, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html > > > > There is no crisis in physics, except for the problem of making GR and QM > coherent when taken together. > > There is a crisis in Physicalism. It needs a non computational theory of > mind, and there are none today, except some interpretation of some fairy > tales, which are not scientific in the Popperian sense. > > Bruno > > > That there is a GR+QM combo theory problem is generally noted, but the "crisis" Hossenfelder, Baggott, etc. are talking about is the theory that is being generated (and written up in "popular" books) is a big rabbit hole, or a bunch of rabbit holes, (or in a group-thinking mode) leading nowhere, and not helpful in their being promoted as being the next big thing.
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