@Samuel_Gregson

Uni of Cambridge and LHC physicist (Graduated) Science communicator and YouTuber The Bad Boy of Science Linktree: https://xitter.cf/t.co/e41vofiBDZ

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Joined July 2012
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The 2026 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded to Prof Francis Halzen for his key contributions to the Ice Cube neutrino detector at the South Pole. @Hassaan_PHY , @DanHooperAstro and I break down everything you need to know! Link: youtube.com/watch?v=HJiamrxg…
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I see the words "Yang-Mills" in today's AI is smarter than people news over/under on Eric Weinstein saying the AI stole from his thesis?
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A timely thread
Martin Bauer
@martinmbauerOct 25
Newton's laws allow objects to accelerate forever without consuming energy In fact, two masses can orbit, collide, or accelerate together indefinitely The reason we don't talk about this is much the same reason we can't travel faster than light 🧵 1/9
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Replying to @skdh
Your video is nonsense. xitter.cf/AtomsksSanakan/status/…
Atomsk's Sanakan@AtomsksSanakanOct 24
Replying to @Samuel_Gregson @MichaelEMann @hausfath
I watched the video. It's nonsense, as expected. A big red flag is she parrots paranoid denialists with history of being wrong (ex: Pielke, Curry, Koonin, the 'Real Clear Science' crowd). I might do a thread on this. xitter.cf/AtomsksSanakan/status/…
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“Worse than climategate”!!! It’s hard for any “scandal” not to be worse than a debunked email hacking and disinfo campaign relying on quote mining scientists' emails to make it seem like they were lying about matters they weren't 🙄 No pattern of skewed presentation here.
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@MichaelEMann @AtomsksSanakan @hausfath What’s the lowdown here?
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauerOct 22
China is making a serious, sustained effort to develop a world-leading research funding system
nature
@NatureOct 20
China has selected its first group of young researchers to receive funding for up to 15 years, in one of the longest research grants on offer to scientists globally go.nature.com/4z4Q3pw

China picks first researchers for 15-year mega grants

Nature - Scientists start with a five-year grant that could be extended for another ten years.

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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauerOct 22
Jeff Goldstone's work had significant impact across an extraordinary range of physics. Goldstone bosons play a central role in particle physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, cosmology ... Truly a giant!
Graham Farmelo
@grahamfarmeloOct 16
RIP Jeffrey Goldstone, who never received the Nobel Prize for physics he so richly deserved: share.google/Dy3AwBTpYjMknbR…

Jeffrey Goldstone, pioneering theoretical physicist and MIT professor emeritus, dies at 93

The Physics Department is very sorry to report that our colleague Jeffrey Goldstone, Cecil and Ida Green Professor Emeritus of Physics, died on October 12 at the age of 93. Jeffrey began his career...

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I assembled an amazing panel featuring physicist @DrBlitz @FrictionPhilo and Catholic expert Kevin nontradicath to investigate the miracle of the sun at Fatima. One of the miracles that converted Joe Schmid back to Catholicism. youtube.com/watch?v=fr9ahcoZ…

Catholic Miracle? Physicist & Skeptics Examine Fatima & the Dancing Sun

Before watching this video , remember DO NOT STARE AT THE SUN! Comf...

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Jim Al-Khalili@jimalkhaliliOct 21
The fact that our latest and most ambitious Unbaffled video yet, on quantum chromodynamics and discovery of quarks and gluons, has had 0.5M views in its first 4 days confirms that there’s a real appetite for this stuff: youtu.be/fRa8gDCBTLE Thanks for so many +ve comments too

The Unknown Story Behind One of the Most Important Discoveries in Physics – with Jim Al-Khalili

One of the biggest discoveries in physics began with an experiment ...

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I phrased my objection to SH’s FTL pushing poorly earlier. My apologies. Thank you to @WKCosmo for clarifying the issue and providing useful papers and context. To be clear, this is what is “bunching my undies”:
Sam Gregson@Samuel_GregsonOct 20
Replying to @Samuel_Gregson @WKCosmo @Lasermazer
If we have 0 evidence that we can travel FTL and 0 indication of the regime in which FTL effects may manifest, then why is SH lamenting the fact that we aren’t pumping 💰into FTL space travel? How is this different to demanding a blue sky collider search of the 10TeV scale?
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PhD student attending first big conference, with advisor.
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John Ganz@lionel_trollingOct 13
I finally learned what Roko's basilisk thought experiment actuall said, and I can't believe how stupid it is
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Replying to @LimYenKheng
That's backwards. She isn't talking about FTL bc she's shilling for AI. Rather she's shilling for AI bc she's obsessed w/FTL She has a Weinstein "ASI will prove I'm right abt everything" vindication fantasy, specifically abt FTL stuff which she calls the biggest issue in physics
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When physicists propose models that solve problems but invoke new particles, they are dishonest frauds and welfare queens. When Sabine claims that we can fly FTL with 0 evidentiary backing (and piles of evidence against in known regimes) it's just "big if true shower thoughts".
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Why isn't she "responding to what the evidence is clearly telling her"? Isn't this "a failure of science to self correct"?
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And before I get "but, she isn't spending public money!" She is working to degrade trust in scientists and institutions, briefing parliaments that huge areas of science should be defunded, and suggesting far more money should be rammed into alien FTL nonsense. Wishful thinking:
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doomslide
@doomslideOct 19
"If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to become religious."
Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdhOct 19
If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.
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So much SciFi literature written about societies organised around technological relics beyond human understanding and this remains the level of discourse
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Now imagine a theorist saying: "Give me $20 billion of public money to build a new Higgs Factory. You won't understand why." Imagine.
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Our internal AI model said it was fine:
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