Feynman and Penrose are good communicators

considering their specialisms can get very esoteric.

An ex was a philosophy and religion graduate and it was always interesting chatting with the physicists doing the modules on that course.

I guess a bit of that is what led me to going to that Hossenfelder lecture (and then reading her book... which, tbh.. was less impressive than hearing her speak).

Not sure how physics can rope itself back into the more tangible stuff, cosmology might be the answer, as the ever increasing size of colliders seems to have hit a dead end... Instinctively I think I prefer the idea of modified newtonian dynamics to all the dark matter stuff.

And string theory seems to have become a fun idea that has spawned an industry.

I've never really stopped being a chemist tho, and so always boomerang back to wanting to focus on the stuff we can do things with (accepting that the theory often goes in advance of this, tho worrying that it has now drifted purely into the realms of belief...)

Posted By: Cardiff Canary, Jan 12, 14:33:13