: YouTube and other places are filled with videos by dipshits disguised as "science bloggers" or as actual scientists, and they post shit like "Quantum Gravity Research in the 1960s and 1980s PROVED The Multiiverse AND That They Are All One On The Same Path Through Time" and "String Theory Has Now Proven That Physical Reality Doesn't Exist And That Consciousness Is Everything". And their videos are sometimes half an hour long and filled with cool animations.
This bodes not well for Humanity.
@thedisasterautist Most physicists I have spoken to, experts in their fields... immersed in it, steeped like 1000 year old tea...
"We know it works, but we still don't know WHY it works."
We're still learning... and we can prove something exists even without actually seeing it.
Science will always be changing as our understanding improves. Cause, I mean, if not we'd still be taking cocaine for bad humors or ghosts in the blood.
@sentientdessert: The ones I've known and the ones I still know, including the ones in my family and what there is of my close circle of friends, know how a lot of it works and why. What they don't do is make shit up and link it to "ancient wisdom" and "The Matrix", though one caveat is the multiverse bullshit. Even Sean Carroll says he has no basis for it but chooses to believe it and run with it. Michio Kaku, when pressed, copped to that as well. They like that it stops them from having to...
@thedisasterautist As I was reading this, I was about to respond with a comment about Howard, but you beat me to it.
@sentientdessert: ....dig any deeper because "the math works". I won't even get into the problem in other discipline subfields, such as particle physics, String Theory, QBism, and such.
It is easy to have a mind so open that one's brains fall out, and it's also perilously easy to know enough just to be dangerous, i.e., know a little bit, being excited, perhaps toking up, and then extrapolating "an entirely new theory of reality". (see: Terrance Howard, for instance."