feels like 20th century physics was us learning everything about every particle you're likely to encounter in your day, and what they do when they touch
but all we really know about space is that it makes quantum systems touch once in a while
(and that galaxies don't rotate at the right speed)
feels like we're waiting for a 'weird but up close' result in space so we can start doing experimental physics on it. maybe this is nonlocality / entanglement tricks, but my money is on benchtop black holes
I quite like this 1876 pop sci article about 'are the elements elementary' -- shows what a top 1800s chemist thought about the coming subatomic revolution. I wonder what the 2022 equivalent of this essay is
but all we really know about space is that it makes quantum systems touch once in a while
(and that galaxies don't rotate at the right speed)
feels like we're waiting for a 'weird but up close' result in space so we can start doing experimental physics on it. maybe this is nonlocality / entanglement tricks, but my money is on benchtop black holes
I quite like this 1876 pop sci article about 'are the elements elementary' -- shows what a top 1800s chemist thought about the coming subatomic revolution. I wonder what the 2022 equivalent of this essay is
https://books.google.com/books?id=CSIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA463