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Well while I have you, it looks like your field is physics. Do you mind mentioning a few other publications which do a particularly good job of covering physics
by throwawaymath 8y ago
Well while I have you, it looks like your field is physics. Do you mind mentioning a few other publications which do a particularly good job of covering physics? The only other one I regularly read is Quanta Magazine, but my background is more math and CS.
- jessriedel 8y agoI wish I had good recommendations for you. Quanta can be quite good, but it misses sometimes. Most coverage of fundamental physics, especially theory, fails (for obvious reasons) to provide the key context that progress in the field is very slow and getting slower. There are a few excellent specialist blogs, like Resonaances for particle physics, http://resonaances.blogspot.com/ http://resonaances.blogspot.com/ but they are not very accessible to outsiders. Sean Carroll, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Peter Woit are pretty good and accessible http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/ http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ but they aren't neutral; that's fine since they are personal blogs, but it can be difficult for laymen to get an objective picture of the field.
- throwawaymath 8y agoWhy is progress in the field getting slower?
- jessriedel 8y agoRoughly, because the experiments have gotten too expensive, so new data is coming in too slowly.
- throwawaymath 8y agoThanks, that makes a lot of sense.