{"id":8057,"date":"2022-11-26T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/26\/physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-there-are-quite-a-few-areas-where-physics-blurs-into-religion\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:38:23","slug":"physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-there-are-quite-a-few-areas-where-physics-blurs-into-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/26\/physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-there-are-quite-a-few-areas-where-physics-blurs-into-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: \u2018There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

To answer life\u2019s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse<\/p>\n

Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist who writes books and runs a YouTube channel (with 618,000 subscribers at time of writing) called Science Without the Gobbledygook<\/a>. Born in Frankfurt, she studied mathematics at the Goethe Universit\u00e4t and went on to focus on particle physics \u2013 her PhD explored the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider would produce microscopic black holes. She is now a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she leads a group studying quantum gravity. Her second book, Existential Physics: A Scientist\u2019s Guide to Life\u2019s Biggest Questions<\/em>, came out in August.<\/p>\n

The first question you ask the physicists you interview in the book is: \u201cAre you religious?\u201d How about you?
<\/strong>I tried to be religious when I was a teenager. I was not Christianised because my parents were both atheists, but all of my friends were Christian, so I went to church with them. And I kind of liked it \u2013 the singing, the social events. I considered joining, but I just couldn\u2019t get myself to believe that God exists.<\/p>\n

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\nTo answer life\u2019s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse
\nSabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist who writes books and runs a YouTube channel (with 618,000 subscribers at time of writing) called Science Without the Gobbledygook. Born in Frankfurt, she studied mathematics at the Goethe Universit\u00e4t and went on to focus on particle physics \u2013 her PhD explored the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider would produce microscopic black holes. She is now a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she leads a group studying quantum gravity. Her second book, Existential Physics: A Scientist\u2019s Guide to Life\u2019s Biggest Questions, came out in August.
\nThe first question you ask the physicists you interview in the book is: \u201cAre you religious?\u201d How about you?I tried to be religious when I was a teenager. I was not Christianised because my parents were both atheists, but all of my friends were Christian, so I went to church with them. And I kind of liked it \u2013 the singing, the social events. I considered joining, but I just couldn\u2019t get myself to believe that God exists. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To answer life\u2019s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist who writes books and runs a YouTube channel (with 618,000 subscribers at time of writing) called Science Without the Gobbledygook. Born in Frankfurt, she studied mathematics …<\/p>\n

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