> James Clerk Maxwell united electricity and magnetism with a pen and paper. Einstein discovered special and general relativity in the same way. This is hilari

> James Clerk Maxwell united electricity and magnetism with a pen and paper. Einstein discovered special and general relativity in the same way. This is hilarious, because these days the criticism of physics is that it's all "theories and ideas". > But what if? Should we just ... give up on particle physics? Should we just give up on learning?