A critique of Physics at the limits of reality with Sabine Hossenfelder
This is a critique of the video “Physics at the limits of reality | Sabine Hossenfelder in conversation with Hilary Lawson | In full” The speakers are:Sabinea Hossenfelder [SH]Hilary Lawson [HL] Introduction 0:00 this is all well and fine and you can0:02 use it to describe a lot of data but0:05 that doesn’t mean that those other0:07 universes actually exist0:09 [Music]0:15 [HL] So Sabina you’ve you’ve had a0:17 remarkable career uh you studied maths0:20 originally became a particle physicist0:23 you’ve Led a group uh researching into0:27 quantum gravity or looking for evidence0:28 of quantum gravity It’s not evidence of quantum gravity, we know gravity exists, it’s looking for a quantum description of gravy. and of course now you0:30 have a very successful uh YouTube0:33 channel as well so one of the things0:35 that’s apparent is uh perhaps more0:39 recently your books including0:41 existential physics uh self-evidently0:44 address the big philosophical questions Can science answer the big philosophical questions? 0:46 do you think that science can answer0:50 those big philosophical questions and0:52 what do you think is the relationship0:54 between science and0:56 philosophy [SH] well yeah so over the years0:59 I’ve drifted towards philosophy started1:03 out with mathematics and I did physics1:06 became rather dissatisfied with that1:09 which is why I wrote my first book (Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray) uh1:11 and now I’ve gone back to doing more1:15 mathematics from a philosophical point1:18 of view and so in my new book (Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to