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Historical critique of progress in fundamental physics resurfaces

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

A 1970 paper by Geoffrey Chew assessing the progress of fundamental physics, later reproduced in Clifford Truesdell's 1987 work, is being shared and discussed among physics scholars online. The material revives debate about how the field measures advancement, drawing on critiques of foundational research dating back more than fifty years. Readers are weighing whether Chew's and Truesdell's assessments still hold for physics today.

Why now: Scholars are debating whether decades-old critiques of fundamental physics' progress remain 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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