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Why is it stagnating though? Lack of talent? Lack of funding? Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve
by eliasbagley 10y ago
Why is it stagnating though? Lack of talent? Lack of funding? Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve?
- rubber_duck 10y ago>Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve? Considering that the only way to even observe Higgs is to build a multi billion dollar collider I'd bet on that one.
- scottlocklin 10y agoSocial problems, IMO. Physics career track is designed to produce this outcome. Peter Woit (OP) wrote a decent book on the subject.