TV: Don't forget that aside from S11E06 episode of The Big Bang Theory, the S01E02 episode of Young Sheldon in conclusion aired yesterday – it's amount of cool man child genius materials – Sheldon was using Carnegie scientific discipline to abide by friends.If y'all search INSPIRE, a particle physics database, for find topcite 50+ as well as engagement 2017, y'all volition instruct 102 hits – papers timestamped every bit 2017 that cause got already earned at to the lowest degree 50 followups. An unusually high percent are experimental papers.
Various papers were published yesteryear the LHC collaborations – ATLAS, CMS, LHCb (various properties of mesons) – every bit good every bit LIGO as well as straight searches for nighttime thing such every bit XENON1T. LIGO has constitute the gravitational waves – from dark holes as well as kilonovae – but otherwise the results of all these experiments cause got confirmed the zero hypotheses.
The issue of papers submitted to hep-th (pure particle physics theory) inwards this listing is only 15. They include some papers close the microscopic information of dark holes, soft hair, matrices inwards them, every bit good every bit the SYK model – a microrevolution of recent years – as well as Erik Verlinde's irritating abolition of nighttime matter. Except for SYK, these or similar papers cause got been covered inwards various TRF spider web log posts.
There are 26 papers inwards the listing labeled every bit hep-ph. Some of those are withal close the \(750\GeV\) diphoton excess that disappeared inwards the previous year. Most of the others focus on fermions' majority matrices as well as mixing – neutrino majority matrices, lepton universality as well as season physics inwards general, anomalies seen inwards mesons. Some of them are close radions, others advise novel experiments – search for nighttime thing as well as colliders.
I mean value that the apparent suppression of the bright as well as creative theoretical move is disappointing as well as worrisome. There is zero wrong close experiments. We've been looking forwards to many of these experiments as well as most of us expected some novel physics which truly hasn't emerged. But the confirmations of the condition quo were probable plenty as well as it's clear that people must refocus much of their attending on theory where the expenses for "more sophisticated models" don't grow every bit apace every bit the costs of increasingly penetrating experiments.
If y'all search for find topcite 500+ as well as engagement 2007, i.e. 10-year-older search amongst a 10 times higher requirement for the citations, y'all abide by 85 papers. Among them sixteen papers – a higher percent than inwards the 2017 search at the meridian – are denoted every bit hep-th. Those are papers on AdS/CFT hydrodynamics, membrane minirevolution, Higgs every bit inflaton, transcendentality inwards amplitudes, flux compactifications, as well as also some MOND. Although the dark hole pilus papers of recent years are deep, I experience that the 10-year-old papers are to a greater extent than intellectually various as well as mostly used to a greater extent than sophisticated as well as beautiful mathematics. 24 hep-ph papers inwards that listing are close jets as well as conventional topics but some of those were close MSSM, a theme that isn't seen inwards the 2017 search.
At many quondam moments I remember, at that spot would last some beacons, papers that were famous plenty as well as that e.g. immature people could elaborate upon as well as instruct interesting plenty move – amongst some gamble of surpassing the master copy newspaper they started with. The beacons were uncountable e.g. during the superstring revolutions but fifty-fifty afterwards, 1 went through the AdS/CFT moving ridge as well as subwaves, BMN as well as \(pp\)-waves, cosmological constant inwards string theory, quondam matrix models, twistor minirevolution amongst various subwaves as well as aAmplitude manufacture ramifications, as well as others. I am non certain it's withal the case. The "cutting-edge" amongst its stylish topics almost universally agreed to last "cool" has almost disappeared. I was trying to imagine how a bright graduate pupil truly feels these days.
She does some physics as well as may practise so. But imagine she wants to exhibit that she is truly on par amongst the likes of Witten, or possibly only a grade or 2 beneath Witten. Witten has accumulated over 130,000 citations. How much should y'all hold off earlier your PhD defense? 50? 100? Isn't it also much to ask? It seems extremely hard these days for a novel individual to write a newspaper that gets over 10 citations inwards a year. Is 1 supposed to write 10,000 papers then?
I would bet that citation counts similar Witten's 130,000 won't last beaten yesteryear anybody for a very, really long fourth dimension if ever. It would last cracking to last proven wrong – as well as soon.
If 1 accepts the observation that things cause got soured, what is the reason? Is it completely natural? Have people run out of ideas and/or excitement naturally? I don't truly believe it. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 argue why I don't believe it is that at that spot cause got been lots of these minirevolutions that cause got withal left some interesting plenty projects that should last continued. I practise mean value that the fading of the cutting-edge waiting for the bright graduate pupil is a outcome of the ideological atmosphere inwards the environs that surrounds the HEP query community.
To simplify things only a piffling bit, I practise mean value that brilliance has de facto instruct politically wrong as well as it is non beingness rewarded, at to the lowest degree non amid the generation of people who are graduate students today. This spider web log has latterly – as well as oft – discussed some insanities that are far from the HEP query community. Like the claims that the Pythagorean theorem as well as \(\pi\) are examples of white supremacy. Similar lunacies are extreme as well as they're signs of what's wrong inwards the broader society, non the HEP query community per se.
But at that spot are lots of similar, much less extreme, but withal brutally harmful changes to the atmosphere that are going on inside universities, fifty-fifty their physics departments, as well as sometimes fifty-fifty fundamental-particle physics groups. Many of those cause got lost their self-confidence as well as their natural happiness close the insights as well as close their as well as their colleagues' natural brilliance. Some meridian people cause got been soundless close – tolerating – crap similar Sabine Hossenfelder's "physics is lost inwards math as well as gone astray" that they cause got truly surrendered. I mean value that pseudointellectual junk such every bit Sabine Hossenfelder – I don't hateful her specifically, she's only a really item representative that's been discussed hither – are truly inwards accuse of of import things such every bit "what y'all may last loudly excited about". And that's the principal argue why the creative move rooted inwards remarkable math has weakened. People who desire to practise such things are discouraged yesteryear their nearly heretical condition – or at to the lowest degree the shortage of rewards for this form of work.
The outcome is that much of the move is ho-hum as well as doesn't differ much from what could cause got been done inwards the 1980s if non 1960s. The cutting border has been obfuscated as well as manifestly disappeared. For a hypothetical #1 ingenious teenager, it's hard to exhibit that he is #1. Maybe fifty-fifty if he discovered something amazing, no 1 seems to last waiting for that, as well as that may last why he doesn't fifty-fifty try. Some billionaires or other influential people volition cause got to practise some artificial environs where "things are alright again", where bright people don't cause got to last ashamed of their brilliance.
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