Debunking Particle Physics Propaganda

Talk given at the DPG meeting in Karlsruhe 24/03/08.

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[gyrogearloose]

Bravo Dr Unzicker. You stuck your head in the jaws of the Lion and bravely refuted his dark soul-less roar. I believe we could hear at least some neurons of the beast applauding you!

[parkerstroh]

“We must not let people analyse the data! It will destroy the environment” LOL

[heinzkoenig]

For years I already knew that CERN in Geneva is a big "masturbating tool" for some people who think they are important.
Since our consciousness will always create what we imagine they will always "discover" yet a new, even smaller particel. This is mastubation in its pures form 🤣

[johnkesich]

Instead of a new, super expensive collider, maybe physicists could just run at each other head first, really fast, and then study the particles produced by the collisions?

[markbarber]

It's a type of church looking for money. You are a champ but likely won't get invited to their xmas party.

[barrywilliams]

It occurs to me that every particle that is postulated is ultimately found.

Are we theorizing them into existence?

[davidsault]

It is my belief that the wars of the twentieth century, wars that destroyed generations of young men, are responsible for the lack of steady progress in physics that has led to the present stall in understanding the Universe today. If the mass from which the geniuses come is killed off, you kill off the geniuses and the progress they would have made.

[brynduffy]

Excellent! Certainly, the emperor wears no clothes.

[chronobot]

He's calling their baby ugly and he is endangering their funding.

Of course they are not going to be open to any criticism.

[classic_sci_fi]

As an undergraduate, I worked as a lab assistant for grad students doing NMR experiments. One week, we had a visiting professor -- a theorist. I was chatting with one of the students running an experiment. This professor came dashing in looking for data for some idea he had and the student tore off several sheets for him. After he left, I said, "Stewart, why did you give him that? That was just noise, wasn't it?" He smiled and said, "I know, but it will keep him out of my hair for a few hours." I knew this 'data' was junk and I was a lowly undergrad, yet this professor who doubtless spent little time in the lab did not. 😎

[petarswift]

Electrical physics was popular in the 19th century and particle physics in the 20th century. Unfortunately, electrical physics has been reduced to engineering today. I believe that this is no accident and that the answers are found in the electrical Universe.

[carlosgaspar]

i suppose the money either goes into a new collider or new weapons systems.

[RickS]

We need many more like you. Poor Faraday, his stones are roaming all over his field.

[herbicidal]

Personally, I am waiting for the ultimate collider, the large equator collider. :)

[buddy.boyo]

The first time I heard about quarks, they said that quarks never exist by themselves so that's why they can never be detected. And I thought "well, how convenient !". then I heard about the "W-Z bosons" and they said that these bosons have " a half-life too short to be detected" and I also thought " well how convenient for you !"

[dvcalc]

Can’t even imagine some of the facial expressions glaring back at you. Well done and at the end of the talk I heard a lot of enthusiastic knocking on the table tops that sounded more than just a pleasant thank you for your talk. You have some serious stones… keep up the good work.

[gadzirayi]

Fearless and great stand against the current politiophysics by politophysicists.

[merlepatterson]

I agree with you whole heartedly Alexander

[Anders]

Yes! My amateur guess has been that the standard model in physics is similar to the epicycle theories centuries ago which became more and more complicated in order to try to make a geocentric model fit with observations.

[AAABTonto]

You can ALWAYS scale up a pile of crap .... OUTSTANDING !