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These would be the same string theorists that were sure the LHC would find evidence of supersymmetry. AFAIK loop quantum gravity hasn't...

Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction https://share.google/hk4zvNxU6UEZfs6r7 From wikipedia...

Suffice it to say that supersymmetry would be found in a different range than expected (we’ve bought ourselves some time). The theory...

in the 19th and 20th century physicists were looking for the luminous aether and the Michelson Morley experiment found no evidence for...

Above the list of characteristics of terran life, in the third paragraph: The NASA definition of life, “Life is a self-sustaining...

The ability for a planet to spawn life and the ability for us to detect it are two different things. A NASA view of a good candidate...

Same with me. :smile: Thanks! :smile: That's my way of thinking, in terms of analogies. That's probably the reason why I prefer the...

Or not. In this regard, the only thing we know with relative certainty is that wherever there is complex, intelligent life, there is...

"in principle" might need to be qualified here as pertaining to a non-relativistic quantim mechanical universe, as physicists like...

The multiverse is not part of the scientific consensus; we operate based on the idea of a single universe. Consequently, the concept of...

To flesh out the Bayesian argument: Assume as a prior that there are three types of universe: a) The laws of physics prohibit life. b)...

The probability distribution still has causes and effects.

That there appears to be some inevitable stochasticity in the world. QFT respects the causal structure of relativity, so has clear...

You, on the other hand, seem to assume that if both microbial life and complex intelligent life exist in the universe, their abundance...

I think you are overlooking the detection requirement. There may be vastly more places where there is just primordial life than...