>>11888663honestly i'm thankful for it. i ended up in a field with a lot more funding and a lot more tenure tracks. HEP-TH is a fucking mess IMHO and even though everybody in that field thinks/needs to act like they are the next Einstein, it really is stagnant. hence why boomers are still dominating it. (keep in mind that in the 1960's it was still common knowledge that theoretical physicists were done with their careers by 30 -- skip to about 6:15 when the interviewer gives Yuval Ne'eman shit for being 33 when he invented the Eightfold Way
https://youtu.be/KYOsua-MraU)
