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Physicists revive 1970 critique of fundamental physics progress

Original: @ keithwilson The progress of “fundamental” physics, from Chew (1970, https:// doi.org/10.1063/1.3021778 >), as reproduc

A chart tracing the progress of "fundamental" physics, taken from Geoffrey Chew's 1970 paper and reproduced in Clifford Truesdell's 1987 essay, is being shared among physicists and science commentators. The graph, which questions how much genuine progress the field has made, is prompting discussion about whether core problems in theoretical physics have really advanced over the past half-century.

Why now: Ongoing debate about stagnation in fundamental theoretical physics makes this decades-old critique feel newly relevant.

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• @ keithwilson The progress of “fundamental” physics, from Chew (1970, https:// doi.org/10.1063/1.3021778 >), as reproduced in Truesdell (1987, https:// doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-818 5-3 >). # physics · pglpm@c.im · 7

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