> It’s crazy BS. Why assert it? <
My unnamed “modern physicist” quote was satire, a gross exaggeration for comic effect. (Maybe I got the exaggeration part right, but missed the comic effect part this time - win some, lose some.)
Anyway, I’ve taught both Relativity and Quantum Mechanics at the college level. I understand the article, and I understand how those theoretical physicists often think. They often go off on crazy tangents that are nothing more thinking out loud. Hence the satire.
Here’s another example. There is no hard lab evidence for string theory. None. And it is thought by many that there will never be any such evidence! Yet many theoretical physicists spend a lifetime fussing around with it.
That’s not what satire is.
String theory, while unproven, is not crazy BS.