"The end of physics

[Philip Thrift]

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There's some on the latest skirmish on the Not Even Wrong blog:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12053

"Now, finally, the ship of science is leaving the safe inland waterways carved by nature, and is heading for the open ocean, exploring a brave new world with 'artificial' materials, organisms, brains and perhaps even a better version of ourselves."

"The basic problem of current fundamental theory though is that there is virtually no relevant data (i.e. data that disagrees with our best model)."

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12053#comment-237807

"You need data, there is no data, and there won’t be any data."

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-black-hole-information-loss-problem.html

@philipthrift

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I am guessing, based on what Freeman Dyson once wrote, is that scientists rely on new and improved equipment and can use these to discover new phenomena, and test hypotheses. Based on his judgement, I am guessing that we have hit a financial barrier, where to make huge and different discoveries, we'll need a bigger boat, a bigger telescope, and more power accelerator, or neutrino interceptor, a super LIGO. Hang some of these super detectors at the far edge of the solar system and I suspect we'll uncover the "unexpected." Stuff, that may not fit neatly into General Relativity or the quantum. In my imagination, this stuff would be kilometers long, and cost  100's of billions of dollars, yuans, ecu's to get into position and be operated mostly by machine intelligence. No need for life support. Cheaper. 

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