Physics Progress Debate

> Physics is, in fact, stuckI'm trying to explain that it is not "stuck" in the sense in which the casual readers tend to perceive it. The scientists actually have what to do, and will have what to do, no problem with that. It's just that it's harder to get the budget for the kinds of investigations that extend the area of our knowledge. And that some "pet hypotheses" of some scientists remained unconfirmed.What is currently written in the news about i

That's a strong claim given that we don't yet fully understand the laws of physics.

What makes you think physics has little left to discover?

I've recently heard a rather interesting and optimistic take on this. Since we have had so many brilliant minds looking in so many places for new physics and still have not seen evidence of it, that suggests whenever we do find new physics, it will have to be so bafflingly strange that all these brilliant people could never imagine it. It may very well be a bigger paradigm shift than the jump from classical to modern physics.

Physics is the field of explaining everything in the universe. Therefore, if physics can't explain a phenomena we don't understand it, as physics is the ultimate explanation we have. I didn't say that if physics can't explain it then it doesn't exist, as you seem to think, just that if physics can't explain it then our understanding of the topic doesn't exist.

I (OP) am not a physicist but still a scientist. I’m not gonna say the theories it said are solid. It’s quite clear to me that they’re not. But they are better theories than what I (who knows the fundamentals of physics for the most part) can come up with. So it’s not a subject matter expert but better than the average joe. For what it is, (and given I asked it to imagine theories), its output looks impressive to me. And I can attest to its abilities to do this in biology as well, and I’ll say i

Our understanding of physics is incomplete.

I guess it's hard to say, because we don't know what we don't know. The famous example is Newtonian physics which seemed to perfectly explain everything.... until new tools and methods came out that were capable of showing it break down under extreme circumstances. That's how we ended up with Einsteinian physics, where it accounted for the old model and the new observed discrepancies.So... how do we know that we will not find some bizarre scenario in the futu

I think there is more to physics than anyone has theorized so far.

See my OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094991"Barring some major unforeseen revolution in our understanding of physics..."