Electrons, Alternate Universes, and the Ontological Commitments of Physics: A Handy Guide to Hossenfelder vs. Goff

Philosopher Philip Goff and physicist (and popular YouTuber) Sabine Hossenfelder finally seem to have negotiated a ceasefire yesterday in the Great Electron Twitter War of 2023. Time to break it down!

Dec 03, 2023

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Note: I chatted about this essay with Stefan Bertram-Lee this afternoon at This is Revolution podcast. You can watch our conversation there or cross-streamed to GTAA.

The war is over.

And by “the war” I mean the grumpy but basically innocuous weeks-long Twitter debate between British philosopher Philip Goff and German physicist (and popular YouTuber) Sabi…

Electrons, Alternate Universes, and the Ontological Commitments of Physics: A Handy Guide to Hossenfelder vs. Goff

Philosopher Philip Goff and physicist (and popular YouTuber) Sabine Hossenfelder finally seem to have negotiated a ceasefire yesterday in the Great Electron Twitter War of 2023. Time to break it down!

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