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They just don\u2019t make physics geniuses the way they used to.\u00a0 Einstein, Heisenberg and de Broglie took classical Newtonian physics and advanced it to a relativistic quantum mechanical model whose predictions have been confirmed experimentally for a hundred years.\u00a0 Our current field of Sheldon Coopers<\/a> have posited string theory, dark matter<\/a> and dark energy<\/a> to account for their not being able to predict cosmic expansion rates and other astronomical claptrap and not a single observation or experiment has born out any of these pseudoscientific fumblings.\u00a0 They might as well re-introduce the phlogiston theory.<\/p>\n

They tell us that the STEM fields are relatively unaffected by the decay that is currently laying waste to academia under the forces of critical race theory and feminism.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s true.\u00a0 I think theoretical and experimental physics are both suffering from a dearth of high-end talent.\u00a0 Mediocrity seems to have laid claim to science in all its departments and all its geographic locations.<\/p>\n

You might think, \u201cSo what?\u00a0 We already know so much about the universe why do we need to solve every question?\u201d\u00a0 You\u2019re right we don\u2019t.\u00a0 But what it means is that we\u2019re coasting.\u00a0 It is one of the signs of a decaying civilization when scientific discovery dries up.\u00a0 A more advanced symptom is when we start to lose existing technology.<\/p>\n

Both of these symptoms appeared in classical civilization.\u00a0 The Greeks were the beginning of scientific research and the Romans were masters of engineering techniques but both of these pursuits decayed and then slowly were abandoned.\u00a0 We have a long way to go before we are 5th<\/sup> century A.D. Rome but these things happen one step at a time.<\/p>\n

Some very smart people have told me that the best minds are being siphoned off to work on artificial intelligence research and hedge fund operations.\u00a0 Maybe this is true.\u00a0 But either way it\u2019s a bad sign when intellectual curiosity has dried up in a society.<\/p>\n

Alright enough of the old guy rant.\u00a0 Yes, our current crop of scientists is kind of lame but I have a theory that even though the Renaissance civilization is running out of steam there will be new shoots popping up here and there, wherever innovation and intelligence is rewarded.\u00a0 It won\u2019t be in Harvard or MIT.\u00a0 They have decided to only reward diversity so they\u2019ll be rewarded with plenty of diversity.\u00a0 But it will happen somewhere.\u00a0 And when it does it will sweep the rest of the dying order away very quickly.\u00a0 The West has decided to self-destruct and it will slowly devolve into a medieval feudalism.\u00a0 A new civilization won\u2019t at first be worried about dark energy and dark matter but at some point it will divert some of its wealth and intellect into solving fundamental questions.\u00a0 When that happens I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll bring abler minds to that pursuit than the doofuses we have produced.\u00a0 It is emblematic of our times that the tv show, \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d showcases four scientists who spent over a decade working on these theories and accomplished nothing at all except possibly overcoming a few of their long lists of neuroses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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