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Re:Fake Physics by eliasbagley on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:53AM (#13454018)
Why is it stagnating though? Lack of talent? Lack of funding? Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve?
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Re:Fake Physics by rubber_duck on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:46PM (#13456165)
>Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve?

Considering that the only way to even observe Higgs is to build a multi billion dollar collider I'd bet on that one.

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Re:Fake Physics by scottlocklin on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:59PM (#13464854)
Social problems, IMO. Physics career track is designed to produce this outcome. Peter Woit (OP) wrote a decent book on the subject.
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