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Man I wish that I could disagree with you, but... yeah. At least the long overdue “come to Jesus” moment is slowly arriving for theoreticians. Maybe we’ll see a
by gotocake 8y ago
Man I wish that I could disagree with you, but... yeah. At least the long overdue “come to Jesus” moment is slowly arriving for theoreticians. Maybe we’ll see another golden age of experimentalism, that would be nice! Slow and solid is after all, better than quick and inconsequential.
- scottlocklin 8y agoMy depressing theory is that "actual science" aka the good stuff that moves the needle, can only be done by some small and fixed number of people, and they're being drowned out by not-so-good people who are just running a career algorithm. Aka, if someone bombed the Solvay conference humanity would have been set back by 50 years, but if someone nuked an APS meeting, humanity might not even notice, or worse, immediately start doing better at physics.