I don’t pay much attention to the popular science depictions. Many of my friends are academic physicists (while I got out after my masters). I think what I’m o

I don’t pay much attention to the popular science depictions. Many of my friends are academic physicists (while I got out after my masters). I think what I’m objecting to is that as the discoveries within physics become less and less impactful, the “field” seems to turn more and more inwards. Also, egos seem to expand approximately proportionally to the inverse of the utility of their work...