On: I think faster than light travel is possible [video]

[taylodl]

I think Dr. Hoffstader enjoys making these controversial, click-bait videos. They probably go a long way toward paying the bills! She is well-aware that until we reconcile GR and QFT then we don't have the final word on anything. Even so, we've yet to observe anything traveling faster than the vacuum speed of light - and we've been looking!

[pieter_mj → taylodl]

It's Sabine Hossenfelder but I get the mistake.

[low_tech_love → pieter_mj]

I love how OP made the mistake and then everyone repeated it! I wonder if that indicates something.

[naikrovek → pieter_mj]

> I get the mistake.

I don't.

[bogdanstanciu → naikrovek]

probably mix up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

[taylodl → bogdanstanciu]

Yes. That's who I get her confused with. Gödel, Escher, Bach was an incredible book for me to read early on in my career.

[GistNoesis → bogdanstanciu]

I would have guessed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hofstadter fictional character of the TV show Big Bang Theory that usually attract physics enthusiasts, but your guess is better.

[throwaway81523 → GistNoesis]

I thought of Robert Hofstadter, who won the Nobel physics prize in 1961 and was Douglas Hofstadter's father.

[taylodl → throwaway81523]

I did not know that!

[naikrovek → bogdanstanciu]

ah, now I get it. sorta.