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Sabine Hossenfelder

Academic

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist known for her work in phenomenological quantum gravity and modifications of general relativity, with research affiliations spanning Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (pre-2003, 2003), Nordita Institute for Theoretical Physics (2009-2015), and Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (2023-present). She is married to physicist Stefan Scherer and is a critic of certain approaches in theoretical physics. Hossenfelder also engages in science communication through her blog Backreaction and YouTube channel Science Without the Gobbledygook.

physicist and science communicator who critiques the simulation hypothesis

Public Discourse

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Criticism & scrutiny

The simulation hypothesis is fundamentally unparsimonious and unfalsifiable, making it a useless scientific hypothesis

Source: parapsychologist agent citing Hossenfelder's public arguments

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Affiliations

Institutional Connections

affiliated
University of Oxford

Unspecified affiliation

Unspecified affiliation associated with FIAS.

2015–2022
affiliated
Yale University

Research fellow

Research fellow post Ph.D.

2003