Re:Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics
by abdullahkhalids on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:03AM
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The reason physics research of today deals with exotic stuff is that pretty much all of physical phenomena observable with the human eye or simple instruments has been explained. There is a lot not explained, crucial problems that indicate that the very basis of physics have to be revised in multiple ways, but that is all in the exotic domain.
That said, there is progress happening in physics, not just in certain fields. Quantum information is probably where most the the novel and insightful fundamental work is being done, and spillovers from it are affecting other parts of physics, including cosmology and condensed matter physics. As for experimental progress, there was recently a "quantum gravity in the lab" conference held at Google X [1], because we are very near the point where we can do experiments that involve both quantum and gravitational phenomena. This line of attack is hopefully going to falsify at least some perspectives on new physics and hopefully lead to some new physics. We will see.
Re:Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics
by fsh on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:20AM
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Most of the field where progress is made don't even try to look for "new physics". The foundation for quantum information theory is just classical quantum mechanics.
That said, there is progress happening in physics, not just in certain fields. Quantum information is probably where most the the novel and insightful fundamental work is being done, and spillovers from it are affecting other parts of physics, including cosmology and condensed matter physics. As for experimental progress, there was recently a "quantum gravity in the lab" conference held at Google X [1], because we are very near the point where we can do experiments that involve both quantum and gravitational phenomena. This line of attack is hopefully going to falsify at least some perspectives on new physics and hopefully lead to some new physics. We will see.
[1] https://sites.google.com/view/quantumgravityinthelab/home