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General Relativity is over a century old and the Standard Model was in it's current form in the mid 70's. Much of the details have shaken out from those things
by colechristensen 2y ago
General Relativity is over a century old and the Standard Model was in it's current form in the mid 70's. Much of the details have shaken out from those things and while there is certainly still progress being made both in refining current theories and developing options for future ones, physics has indeed slowed down quite a bit in overall progress which was kind of an explosion between say 1875 and 1975 (let's not quibble with exact dates here).
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoParticle physics has slowed down, but astrophysics has accelerated. Just to put things in perspective, the Hubble Space Telescope was only launched in 1990. Digital cameras, vastly larger telescopes, space telescopes, computers capable of analyzing much larger quantities of data and running much larger simulations have transformed astrophysics over the last 35 years or so.