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| name = Rudi Waibel<br />
| fields = Engineering<br />
| workplaces = Universität der Bundeswehr München (Neubiberg)<br />
| nationality = German<br />
| known_for = Critique of modern theoretical physics ("Das Glasperlenspiel der modernen Physik")<br />
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'''Rudi Waibel''' is a German engineering professor (Dr.-Ing.) associated with Neubiberg, known as a critic of modern theoretical physics. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.<br />
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==Ideas==<br />
Waibel is the author of the essay "Das Glasperlenspiel der modernen Physik" ("The Glass Bead Game of Modern Physics"), published in the journal ''raum&zeit'' (no. 55, 1992), written as a review of a book by the physicist Dieter Straub. Borrowing Hermann Hesse's image of the "Glass Bead Game," Waibel argues that theoretical physics has become a self-referential activity that privileges mathematical elegance over empirical reality. He criticises what he calls the "elephantiasis" of elementary-particle physics and the demands for ever larger particle accelerators, invoking Werner Heisenberg's own reservations about such utopian expectations. His critique lies outside the scientific mainstream.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/Waibel.html "Das Glasperlenspiel der modernen Physik" (ekkehard-friebe.de)]<br />
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