[JasonSage]

Also

> The issue is that these physics threads always end up the same, with commenters having only popular-level background offering suggestions they came up in five minutes

… is this really an issue?

I speculate you’ve taken something you don’t want to see personally and dressed it up as “the problem” when you could instead just find a way to be okay with it.

But maybe there’s something genuinely problematic with that behavior which I don’t know about.

[kelnos]

Yes, it's an issue. I come here as a layperson who is interested in the universe; it's exhausting to read plausible-sounding but completely meritless theories brought up by people here with little more training than I have, and try to decide if these ideas are actually useful, or are just uninformed things some rando thought up in five minutes after reading a pop-sci cosmology book.

I'd much rather hear plausible theories made by people who actually know what they're talking about.

[ssklash]

If you've spent any amount on HN reading physics posts, you will see it is absolutely an issue.

[shigawire]

I remember the halcyon room temp superconductor days.