Thoughts on sabine hofstadter?

[sensible27]

https://youtu.be/Ov98y_DCvRY

[AllThatSweetJazz]

She's a bit too much of a leftist professor ideologically.
That said she does generally know what she's talking about, but in my experience she takes the conclusions a step too far in her videos.

For example, she's treating an electron in the double slit experiment as though gravitational field must be acting in two places at once at the full potential an electron should expect. But these are not two electrons, it's one. And you can't treat it like a particle there because it's de-localized, so saying that the gravitational potential created by the presence of the electron should be behaving as if there is a localized electron there is inappropriate.

Mathematically, the two theories don't plug together. So my question would be why don't you just try it experimentally? My suspicion is that detecting gravitational potential of an electron is insanely difficult and that's why, but we can try an analog. We can use electric or magnetic potential to try to observe localization effects of electrons traveling through a gravitational potential.

It's a old experiment, but we find that electrons can be deflected by electric fields without collapsing the wave function. So if electric potentials can act on an electron without localization, why would we demand that gravity require localization?

It means *we don't know* the details of what's happening, it doesn't necessitate that Einstein was wrong.

Alternatively, maybe she's just a genius that's way beyond me but is explaining it poorly?

[RolandCuthbert]

She is the absolute greatest!!! I do not agree with all of her views. But this woman is no nonsense. She focuses on real facts. She does not engage in fantasy and the weirdness other physicists do. One of the few atheist scientists I have respect for. Because she doesn't do the naturalistic explanations for universal origins. She says it is science fiction to make the claim we have a theory of everything. She doesn't even believe science should even have that responsibility.

And besides that, she is a good singer/song writer!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mxLGUKRNHXM

[sp33d]

She doesn't sugar coat and she's straight to the point. I can appreciate that.