The Universe Is Not Locally Real

[LinuxGal]

Fantastic article!  Without derailing this thread, it is interesting that one could get a PhD in physics, "have fun for five  years, and then...be jobless."  That outcome, of course, would feel very real, not to mention, painful.

There’s a story (almost certainly apocryphal, since it’s also told about other people) that Ernest Rutherford was told by his academic advisors to take his degree in mathematics, because everything had already been discovered in physics.

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Ironic before 1973, perhaps.  Not so much now.  This years' Nobel prize was awarded for experiments conceived in 1964.  The 2013 prize was for the Higgs particle, also conceived in '64.  The 2004 prize was for asymptotic freedom proposed in 1973, which closed the Standard Model.  Ever since then, the pack has been running headlong down the dead-end blind alley of superstring theory and nobody's gonna pony up for a circumlunar superconducting supercollider to keep the academic paper mills running. All the low-hanging fruit has been grabbed.

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