Matt Strassler

Matt James Strassler (born December 1966) is an American theoretical physicist and science communicator. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Quotes

What physics explains the enormous disparity between the gravitational scale and the typical mass scale of the elementary particles?
- Problems for the Next Millennium, Strings, July 10-15, 2000, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

... there's an argument that the Standard Model plus gravity is all there is, and the naturalness argument has nothing to do with nature. And that argument is that the properties of the world, the properties of particle physics in particular, are determined partly ... largely? ... by a selection bias.
- (March 7, 2017)"A Metacrisis in Particle Physics Naturalness On the Brink by Matt Strassler". IPhT-TV. (quote at 43:31 of 1:05:51 in video)

... a very special type of falsehood common in explanations of physics for nonexperts ... a physics fib or, more simply, a phib.
Phibs are often found in articles and books about the universe. They arise when well-intentioned physicists, faced with a nonexpert's question, are trying to concoct a short, memorable tale to serve as a compromise between giving no answer at all and giving a correct but incomprehensible one.
- "Overture". Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean. 2024. ISBN 154160329X.

... Are we thinking about the Higgs field wrong? Are we thinking about quantum field theory wrong? Are there particles at the Large Hadron Collider that are hiding from us? ... It's true that the Large Hadron Collider has vast data sets. And when you have a gigantic amount of data, if you don't ask exactly the right question, you might not see what's actually in there. So, we have to be very thoughtful about all the different questions that we should ask of this data.
- (June 14, 2024)"Matthew Strassler, "Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean"". Harvard Science Book Talks and Research Lectures, YouTube. (quote at 46:45 of 1:01:10 in video)

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