>>14116465>i mean, come on, you dont have to be a genius to build an atomic bombjesus talk about monday night quarterbacking
guy seems confused. yeah sure pre-20th, there was a lot of low hanging theoretical fruit. confirmation of GR and QM coincided with WWs leading to era of big science. seems to ignore advances in computing, solid state, and communications. there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shut and calculate paradigm for 50 years. the name of the game was falsification. the real issue is, of course, that experimental confirmation becomes impossible as you approach the relevant energy scales. so the theoretical models were developed to test ideas that expand dimensionality and explain the relatively recent data on the expansion and composition of matter in the universe. he's acting like science as twiddling their thumbs. so some things to look forward to:
wakefield accelerators
higgs factory in china
antimatter production
gravitational astronomy
https://www.ias.edu/ideas/nima-arkani-hamed-and-thomas-lam-conversation 
