Eric Weinstein has been beating this drum for a while... That we are in a great stagnation for the past 50 years in physics. He goes into all the problems with academia and why our smartest people are wasting their efforts on string theory instead of doing real physics.
But -- is there any real physics left to do? String theory is obviously an abomination, but physics emerges from experiments, and I'm not sure there are any interesting experimental results out there --even the new 'superconductor' thing is a bit, like, whatever.
Since general relativity has run dry, it is perhaps time to start looking for a paradigm shift outside of the universe as we currently understand it. We should be employing every theoretical physicist to discover a unified theory.
You take away the computers and everything around you could have been made in the 1970s.
Eric Weinstein has been beating this drum for a while... That we are in a great stagnation for the past 50 years in physics. He goes into all the problems with academia and why our smartest people are wasting their efforts on string theory instead of doing real physics.
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But -- is there any real physics left to do? String theory is obviously an abomination, but physics emerges from experiments, and I'm not sure there are any interesting experimental results out there --even the new 'superconductor' thing is a bit, like, whatever.
Since general relativity has run dry, it is perhaps time to start looking for a paradigm shift outside of the universe as we currently understand it. We should be employing every theoretical physicist to discover a unified theory.
You take away the computers and everything around you could have been made in the 1970s.