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Why can't they find out why no one has done anything interesting in theoretical physics in 50 years? This stuff is lame in 2025.
by nimish 2y ago
Why can't they find out why no one has done anything interesting in theoretical physics in 50 years?
This stuff is lame in 2025.
- robin_reala 2y agoMaybe review the last 25 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physics_discoveries#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physic...
- jcranmer 2y agoThat's all experimental physics, not theoretical physics.
- Calwestjobs 2y agoWell topological order sound like april first to me. Emergent gravity looks to me million times more plausible then that mess :)
- nimish 2y agono experimental verification even possible in most of those, and/or the theory had been more or less fixed before ~1990 Many such cases. Very boring stuff now, not worth spending the money.
- seabass-labrax 2y agoIf you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics, give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's perspective than, say, quantum mechanics. [1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en
- nimish 2y agoI have done enough mathematics and have spoken to wolfram personally, it's interesting but not connected enough to existing theory despite his personal genius at QCD