[bb88]

I'm beginning to like Sabine more and more. She is pro-nuclear, but she's not afraid to criticize the issues, like she did recently with small nuclear reactors.

The most optimistic view I've heard on string theory is that the Ads/CFT correspondence actually can move to de-sitter space one day. String theory proponents actually believe this. They do believe the Ads/CFT correspondence is one of the crowning achievements of string theory.

The most pessimistic view I've heard is that we're waiting for the people who have made string theory their life's work since the 1980's to retire and allow new funding efforts to go to different ideas.

[onecommentman]

Sabine wasn’t mentioned in this article at all. Why is this the top comment?

But as a side note, Sabine has the annoying habit of speaking authoritatively in matters outside her expertise (i.e. physics) in her YouTube videos. You catch someone doing that once in a scripted presentation, in a subject area where you have expertise and you know they are being superficial at best and wrong at worst, and you basically tune out.