[noomen]

Wait what?!

PhD in Physics here.

It's extremely frustrating, whenever a link like this, i.e outside of the IT and programming field, is posted, the number of people, who clearly have ZERO understanding of the subject matter, try so hard to sound smart. It's almost turning HN to another reddit!

To suggest that people like Weinberg was just researching imaginary things is so unbelievably ignorant. Not to mention suggesting that there must always be ONE theory that explains everything from the get-go with no disagreements whatsoever.

Physics/Science has always worked like that: many attempts at explaining a phenomena, after which ONE will be tested and shown to be the "closest" to the truth. And by closest, I mean closest.

I don't even want to begin to address that last abhorrently stupid and ignorant last sentence: "if you don't know the structure of glass you're not a scientist." SHUT UP. If you don't know what physics is, STAY HUMBLE when you comment on it.

[root_axis]

> , i.e outside of the IT and programming field, is posted, the number of people, who clearly have ZERO understanding of the subject matter, try so hard to sound smart

It's the same thing with respect to IT and programming articles too, most programming articles that hit the front page have a bunch of comments explaining why the author is the problem with programming today and the technology they're discussing is not useful and all the best shit was invented in the 70s and there's no been no progress since lol.

[mrjangles]

My comment went from, like +10 votes to -1 and flagged in 1 hour.

Is this your doing or someone else?

I also have a PhD in Physics, everyone I know in my field agrees with me, including my professors. Sorry, but disagreeing with me is NOT a reason to be flagging comments. If it wasn't you then the apologies, I guess my comment is for whoever did it.

[wiz21c]

since you're in the field, what could be the cause of the "lack of progress" ? We need detector that are too hard to build to get the data/measurements we need to progress ? Or do we lack a sort of "flash" when someone figures the new physics out of the current knowledge by a change of point of view ?

[T-A]

Not parent, but the cause is obvious to everybody in the field: existing fundamental theory (general relativity from 1915 and Standard Model, completed by the mid-70s) while manifestly incomplete, is consistent with all available experimental data.

New accelerator experiments capable of pushing significantly beyond the explored energy range would take a decade+ to build and cost tens of billions (and up), and there is no guarantee that they would find anything new.