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Sabine Hossenfelder

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September 18, 1976

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Sabine Hossenfelder is an author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies where she leads the Analog Systems for Gravity Duals group.

Hossenfelder completed her undergraduate degree in 1997 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. She remained there for a Masters degree under the supervision of Walter Greiner, entitled "Particle Production in Time Dependent Gravitational Fields", which she completed in 2000. Hossenfelder received her doctorate "Black Holes in Large Extra Dimensions" from the same institution in 2003, under the supervision of Horst Stöcker.

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Huge Gravity Anomaly Discovered!

Scientists just found a massive 7,000 kilometer-long gravitational anomaly off the coast of Africa in data from a NASA satellite. The anomaly occurred from 2006 to 2008 and has now disappeared. What caused it? Let’s have a look.

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	Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray 4.05 avg rating — 3,401 ratings — published 2018 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions 3.89 avg rating — 3,240 ratings — published 2022 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Holes By Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw And Existential Physics By Sabine Hossenfelder 2 Books Collection Set by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, Sabine Hossenfelder 4.02 avg rating — 2,005 ratings — published 2022 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity (FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mehr als nur Atome 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cognition Switch #2 by Martin J. Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Ciencia tem todas as respostas 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion By Sean Carroll & Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide To Life’s Biggest Questions By Sabine Hossenfelder 2 Books Collection Set by Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Biggest Ideas in the Universe By Sean Carroll, Existential Physics By Sabine Hossenfelder 2 Books Collection Set by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author), Sabine Hossenfelder 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is “We don’t know.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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“There are other reasons we use math in physics. Besides keeping us honest, math is also the most economical and unambiguous terminology that we know of. Language is malleable; it depends on context and interpretation. But math doesn’t care about culture or history. If a thousand people read a book, they read a thousand different books. But if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

tags: equation, language, mathematics, physics

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“For the most part, physicists and mathematicians have settled on a fine division of labour in which the former complain about the finickiness of the latter, and the latter complain about the sloppiness of the former.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

tags: mathematics, physics

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