Почти медаль :)

[thedeemon]

Ура, долгие часы прокрастинации на youtube оказались вознаграждены: персональное упоминание с занесением в почетный список бездельников на канале Fermilab. https://youtu.be/ZoJeWwtfdmQ?t=397

Предыдущее достижение моей карьеры в ютюб-физике - упоминание на The Science Asylum https://youtu.be/t0nGy2rsXYY?t=351 :)

Кстати, если кто интересуется популярными роликами вокруг физики и еще не знает эти каналы, рекомендую. А еще больше рекомендую PBS Space Time.

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Re: Dr.Don mistakes

[thedeemon]

>Why do you like Fermilab channel?

They popularize basics of modern physics to a wide audience and do it not too bad. Some episodes gave me insights regarding some things I missed or didn't pay attention to earlier.

Don Lincoln is an experimentalist in particle physics, so his episodes on particle physics are usually very good, while stuff about cosmology and GR may be sloppy or sometimes even incorrect (like when he used Newton's gravity formula near a black hole, which gives a quite incorrect result).

Your opinions on what they think and what they are aware of... are not adequate, in my opinion.

Re: Dr.Don mistakes

[dennisgorelik]

> They popularize basics of modern physics to a wide audience and do it not too bad.

How do you know that Don Lincoln is not feeding your misconceptions?
He made several sloppy mistakes that you and I noticed. He likely made many other mistakes that you and I did not notice.

Or do you mean that occasional misconceptions do not matter much if most of the concepts he teaches correctly?


> Don Lincoln is an experimentalist in particle physics, so his episodes on particle physics are usually very good

Ok, may be. I did not watch these episodes.
But usually, sloppy analyst produces sloppy analysis somewhat consistently.

Ok, let's take a look:
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https://youtu.be/sTt27A8W4eY?t=218
Funding science is way better than that. Even if we take the lowball estimate of 20% return on investment, after a mere four eyar, you double your investment.
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This unscrupulous "lowball estimate of 20% return on investment" claim reminded me ponzi scheme promotions (like MLM by Lenya Golubkov).

Where did Don Lincoln took this "lowball estimate"?

My lowball estimate for ROI in fundamental Physics research -- is that it is in a negative territory (losses, not profits).

> Your opinions on what they think and what they are aware of... are not adequate

It is good to know.

All our opinions are recorded here.
After ~10 years it will be easier to evaluate our claims.
You will see that Messier 87 black hole "photo" will turn out to be a fake setup.

Similarly, misconception about possibility of self-fueling explosions in the outer levels of a cooling superstar -- will be gradually washed out from the popular physics lectures.

Re: Dr.Don mistakes

[thedeemon]

>How do you know that Don Lincoln is not feeding your misconceptions?

I compare his words against the things I learned in textbooks and lectures of other physicists. It usually checks out. Of course there could be mistakes went unnoticed, but that should be quite rare, so not significant.

Re: Dr.Don mistakes

[dennisgorelik]

> It usually checks out.

"Usually checks out" is, usually, not sufficient to rely on.
The standard for scientific lectures should be "[almost] always checks out".