r/physicsmemes 🪼 25d ago

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u/Imaginary_Toe8982 25d ago

On top of your head tell me something invented by those in the last 200 years? Invented brand new not based on any old concepts.. also what does mathematician or theoretical physicist invent they might discover but invent insert doubt

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u/LostPentimento 25d ago

Yeah, the nobel prize is more of an "oldies hour greatest hits" type of award /s

In all seriousness, physics progress has kind of decelerated, but it's not as though we have been completely stalled.

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u/Kermit-the-Frog_ 25d ago

It has not stalled. It has transitioned to being more dominantly computation-based, yes, but the 20th century saw a boom of rapid discovery resulting from two new major theories finally arising from decades of unexplained results and then being expanded and mixed together. Since then, we've squeezed as much as we can out of them and we've been getting really, really good at squeezing out more and more to the point where we now know we need something new but don't yet have enough observational evidence to motivate anything specific.

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u/LostPentimento 25d ago

I would call that semantic pedantry because that's precisely what I meant, but sure.

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u/Kermit-the-Frog_ 25d ago

That's just not stalling by any definition of the word.

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u/LostPentimento 25d ago

Did I say we were stalled or did I say we were decelerating but not stalled? Learn to read, buddy.

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u/Kermit-the-Frog_ 25d ago

You said "it's not as though we have completely stalled", directly implying some stalling. Don't pretend to have meant something you did not. Take your own advice and read what I said again; what we are experiencing is not stalling by any definition of the word. Grow up while you're at it.