In Defense of Max Tegmark

Having posted a video recently that is rather harshly critical of Max Tegmark I thought it only fair to at least make a reasonable effort to defend him against myself with a somewhat more positive view. Max is certainly a delightful person who is hard not to like. Nevertheless, he suffers from a basic and unquestioned addiction to the so-called standard model of physics modified by quantum mechanics, general relativity theory, and various attempted innovations on the part of Max and others. The problem though is that the Standard Model is clearly as obsolete today as was the religiously enforced heliocentric model of the universe on the brink of the Renaissance and Reformation.