Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Professor Dave Explains" channel.

  1. @ It's a fact. I have antivaxxers in my own family. I don't know how many times they have had COVID, already, must have been four or five by now. They never learn, no matter how crap they feel. They are more afraid of "the spikes" than they are of the disease. It's completely irrational.
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  2. Elon Musk is a prime example of an emotionally incomplete individual. He is probably on the extremely functional end of the Asperger's spectrum.
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  3.  @HAARGLaga  Elon Musk is undoubtedly intelligent, but he is clearly not mentally stable. One thing has nothing to do with the other, unfortunately.
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  4. Here, let me give you some attention for spewing nonsense. ;-)
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  5. Lying about Jesus is NOT compatible with being honest about nature. It doesn't matter that you don't mean to lie or that you believe it is within your special religious liberty rights to lie. You are still lying. The reason why we are not persecuting religion is to keep the peace. It is NOT because we believe that there is a morally justified version of it. There isn't. If you want to actually become as morally upright as you believe you are, then you have to leave this mind virus behind.
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  6.  @cwbrooks5329  It means that even though humanists know that all religion is a scam we are not trying to eradicate it with laws and government action. So you agree that as a religious person you are acting immorally. In that case, what is your reason for that immorality, exactly?
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  7.  @cwbrooks5329  What supposition did I make, exactly? Christianity lies about the resurrection. That is what it makes money with. These are simply the facts. If anybody is immature here, then it is you. You can not admit that I have you in a corner from which there is no escape. You know it. I know it. Everybody who reads this knows it. Take care. And please stop lying. ;-)
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  8. Yes, but he was still under the influence of his invisible friend.
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  9. Let me give you some more attention, Mike. You are begging so nicely for it. ;-)
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  10.  @Skivv5  All religion works exactly like the Nigerian Prince scam.
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  11. There are no particles in nature. There are only people who can't remember the eight word sentence "A photon is a small amount of energy." that they were taught in high school science class.
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  12.  @stupidteous  We are teaching the basics of quantum mechanics in high school. Have been for almost 50 years. :-)
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  13. They may have been. The garden of Eden is a symbol for the bliss of early childhood. His parents may have covered him with a dino blanket or maybe he had a dino toy when he was very little. ;-)
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  14.  @TomHawks-k8l  What is not? The symbolic character of the garden that stands for early childhood? That's completely obvious once you actually read Genesis 3 with both eyes open. You have been in Eden. You talked to the snake. You ate the fruit. OK, maybe you didn't eat quite as much as I did, though. ;-)
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  15.  @MarshallMadrigal-j2h  That is an often repeated falsehood. You are welcome to read the bible. You will find that it does not contain any scientific content, but it is full with politics. The Abrahamic religions, in particular, came out of late iron age politics. That's the reason why they are so useless: the conditions that created them haven't existed in almost 2000 years.
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  16. Wow, that was a lot of bullshit. ;-)
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  17.  @georgelionon9050  If your nest is dirty then you might be right, but nothing about physics is dirty the way Sabine makes it appear. Her argument about high energy physics being at an impasse was discussed among high energy physicists when she was still in Kindergarten. She didn't discover the energy desert problem and she has done nothing to solve it. That string theory is "not even wrong" was also known long before Sabine was ever a name in the public's eye. It has nothing to do with theory. It's a trivial consequence of the weakness of gravity. It simply doesn't give us anything to describe beyond the level of general relativity. There is no reproducibility crisis in physics, either. We have literally spent billions of tax payer dollars to validate major results. Her understanding of quantum mechanics is trivially wrong. She hasn't even read the literature up to 1932 for all I can tell and the publications with her name on it are not worth the paper they have been printed on. Whenever she talks about nuclear energy and renewables or the climate she gets major facts wrong, which shows that she hasn't even spent ten minutes on research.
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  18.  @jarlsparkley  I am an experimental high energy physicist. I was there when they designed LHC and its detectors. I talked to the theorists about these problems. I sat in dozens of science talks where these problems were discussed seriously by people who actually understand them. I have read approx. 2000 pages of detector design proposal documents front to back (plus some of the design documents of the SSL, which was the way better machine) and as a result I got to design one of the central elements of one of the world's largest high energy physics detectors. Unlike Sabine I have actually accomplished something of lasting value in physics. ;-)
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  19.  @jarlsparkley  The reason why I can tell that Sabine is lying is because I am one of the people she is lying about. Now let me give you some more attention, lonely kid. You are begging for it so nicely. ;-)
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  20.  @jarlsparkley  All you are spelling out here is that you don't know anything about physics. :-) The existence of an energy desert, for instance, is not a problem. It's a highly likely fact. An adult simply accepts facts instead of complaining about them. That string theory is not even wrong is also just an EXPERIMENTAL fact. Theory doesn't change nature. Theorists can't make gravity stronger just because it would be more convenient for experimentalists. Let's say somebody discovers the correct theory of quantum gravity tomorrow by chance. It would be EXACTLY as untestable as string theory. That you don't understand this makes you the very kind of fool that Sabine is making money with. ;-)
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  21. You know what Jesus said? You are the first. All we other people know is what anonymous guys wrote about him who never actually met the man. ;-)
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  22.  @BooksRebound  So you are the anti-religious guy who knows what Jesus said? Cool. I think I must be on the internet. ;-)
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  23.  @BooksRebound  I am aware that that is not what they mean. They truly mean that what the books say is literally what was said 2000 years ago. The books are written by the holy spirit, after all. You didn't know that? Then you never had Catholic religious education. :-)
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  24. The electron is a quantum of energy. It is neither a particle nor is it a wave. Dirac pointed this out around 1930, but nobody was paying any attention to the obvious solution of a false dichotomy fallacy: it's neither. It's something completely different.
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  25. Chomsky differs very little from Sabine Hossenfelder. Both have a huge ego that they can't back up with actual knowledge.
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  26. Can you please explain to me what you mean by "breakthrough" in physics?
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  27.  @AMC2283  No, but if we can make life from scratch ourselves then the miracle of creation will have become nothing but an exercise of advanced science, which will prove once and for all that god is, at most, an alien, and not a supernatural being.
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  28. The common good doesn't work against the natural order. The only places worth living are those where people still value the common good. How do I know? I was born in one of those places where they don't. Thank god my parents got us out of that hellhole.
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  29. @ I see. I can agree with some of that. Yes, at least half of mankind seem to be unable of logical thinking and a few percent are incapable of any kind of altruistic behavior. As to the problem of leadership in democracies... we will have to find structures that are resilient against ill-will. So far we have not.
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  30. @ The natural order is evolution. Human evolution has mostly tended towards altruism because otherwise small tribes can't survive. The other extreme, psychopathy, however, is also needed for survival, so humans produce both, altruists and psychopaths.
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  31. @ Only if by "order" you mean the order of the grave. Evolution is the order of life. Admittedly, one has to pay a very heavy price for it.
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  32. Real science is also drama free, apart from the deadlines which cause a lot of sleepless nights. Sabine is simply putting a drama queen performance. If you think that you can lie in science to get funding, think again. A typical proposal for a large experiment has to be validated by hundreds of people during multiple meetings and usually years of constant science communication. The amount of proper technical criticism that is being thrown at every single sentence of a proposal is unimaginable to the average person. It is not just "quite impossible" to dispute facts in physics, but it is entirely impossible. We are the people who were and are creating the observational evidence for your "engineering facts".
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  33. @solaire7046 Material science is more chemistry than physics. It usually tries to solve a practical problem with commercial value. That has absolutely nothing to do with the question what spectrum the physical vacuum has. Knowing that has ZERO practical and economic value. That's why you have to beg the government for money. You will surely not get any from a venture capitalist for the question what the mass of the lightest supersymmetric partner is. :-)
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  34.  @ProfessorDaveExplains  I think he made a joke. ;-)
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  35. If there is one thing I noticed about men of faith is that they generally don't know where the bible defines sin and what it actually means. The pope does, by the way, but then... the chances that the pope is an atheist are close to 100%. ;-)
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  36. Religions thrive on misery. Get India out of poverty and all that nonsense will go away.
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  37. Nobody does these experiments. They have no use in real physics.
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  38. This is not just stupid. It's actually mental. And, yes, there are plenty such people. The folks standing behind Trump during rallies are all of that kind. Count them. ;-)
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  39. Yes, but an intelligent person might consider that while Elon Musk talks about Mars a lot, maybe that is not exactly where SpaceX is really going. Not everything a person says has to be taken for granted. One can be skeptical about these kinds of statements. That doesn't mean Elon Musk doesn't know exactly what he is doing there... it's just not "going to Mars". That's just a front for something far more sinister. The world is currently in a new cold war and a new nuclear arms race which will include nuclear weapons in space as a fourth element in addition to the classical nuclear triad. If you think about it... Musk doesn't even hide that, he just tells you indirectly by talking about the fact that Earth won't be a safe place any longer (and it basically hasn't been since the 1950s!)... exactly because of the things that he is doing for the US government.
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  40. No, you don't. The average scientist doesn't spend a waking minute on that. They just do their jobs as they always have and always will. Worst case the big mushroom clouds will appear for a few minutes over the globe and then we have to start over, hopefully with a lot fewer idiots, most of whom will have learned a valuable lesson for life. ;-)
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  41. And there is the Russian troll bot. ;-)
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  42. No, they aren't different. Quantum mechanical effects are NOT restricted to "small thing" and the usual notions of physics (energy, momentum, angular momentum and charge) work exactly the same.
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  43.  @garymckee1287  Bullshit always is... it completely removes all impetus to pay attention in school. ;-)
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  44. Wrestle away, kid. Your failure to grow up means nothing to me. ;-)
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  45. Relativity. You can't derive that from non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
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  46. Cool story, bro. ;-)
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  47. Sane people are playing funny pranks and they are making good jokes. This stuff isn't even funny. Jerry Lewis as the nutty professor, that was funny. The "science talk" in "The Big Bang Theory" is funny. The science-ish banter between Spock and Bones on Star Trek, that was funny. This is simply a man with a serious mental health problem putting himself on display on the internet. That is not funny.
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  48.  @PerpetualAbidance  You are correct. You didn't add anything to anything here. ;-)
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  49. Science isn't controlled by capitalism. It's mostly funded out of federal tax dollars and under control of government agencies. Most of the US R&D budget goes into medicine, if I remember correctly. Physics is a small side note in the budget.
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  50.  @ertymexx  In the US and Europe it's the voters. In Russia it's Putin. In China the man's name is Xi. ;-)
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