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'Physics is notoriously bad at having curiosity about strange, unconventional, or truly novel ideas.' There is certainly no shortage of these! What we are sho

• naasking 8y ago
  Maybe we're short on those precisely because the strange ideas aren't given enough attention. Bell's Theorem was a landmark result that didn't come out of the Copenhagen interpretation, but because John Bell was fascinated by the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation. The point is, unconventional perspectives give you new ways of looking at a problem that can yield new experiments.
  • dwaltrip 8y ago
    That could be the case. I think the bigger issue is that many unsolved questions today are difficult to explore without expensive, highly-sophisticated equipment and larger teams of people.