>>13073632>Honestly physics seems like a dead field if you are not a string cultist.Could not be further from the truth.
first of all, cosmology/GR is thriving in a rebirth the likes of which we haven't seen in decades, from LIGO to black holes its an incredibly active field
secondly, string theory is essentially an offshoot of high energy particle physics which is one specific facet of physics. other fields like condensed matter are far more active and comprise much much larger chunks of the overall physics world. even within high energy particle physics, there are many areas of research that strike equally at the "core" of things, like the search for neutrino-less double beta decay. Observation of this would be leaps and bounds towards answering the baryon assymetry problem, which is equally as big as the whole gravity problem (and possibly related as well)
thirdly, string theory (to my understanding), while a beautiful elegant solution that we wish was true, has failed to deliver on basically any of its promises. we have no experimental evidence for any of the theory, and if your theory doesnt match experiment, it isnt a valid model of reality.
so basically, physics is a dead field if you ARE a string cultist, and is a thriving, growing, and sometimes even fast paced field, if you're studying the right things
