{"id":165200,"date":"2023-06-05T21:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T02:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/why-has-there-been-no-progress-in-physics-since-1973"},"modified":"2023-06-05T21:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T02:23:51","slug":"why-has-there-been-no-progress-in-physics-since-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/why-has-there-been-no-progress-in-physics-since-1973","title":{"rendered":"Why has there been no progress in physics since 1973?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why has there been no progress in physics since 1973?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hda0_31_dyc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The twentieth century was a truly exciting time in physics.<\/p>\n<p>From 1905 to 1973, we made extraordinary progress probing the mysteries of the universe: special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, the structure of the atom, the structure of the nucleus, enumerating the elementary particles.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, this extraordinary progress\u2026 stopped.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, where are the fundamental discoveries in the last 50 years equal to general relativity or quantum mechanics?<\/p>\n<p>Why has there been no progress in physics since 1973?<\/p>\n<p>For this high-budget, big-hair episode of The Last Theory, I flew all the way to Oxford to tell you why progress stopped, and why it\u2019s set to start again: why progress in physics might be about to accelerate in the early twenty-first century in a way we haven\u2019t seen since those heady days of the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/why-has-there-been-no-progress-in-physics-since-1973\">Continue reading \u201cWhy has there been no progress in physics since 1973?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twentieth century was a truly exciting time in physics. From 1905 to 1973, we made extraordinary progress probing the mysteries of the universe: special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, the structure of the atom, the structure of the nucleus, enumerating the elementary particles. Then, in 1973, this extraordinary progress\u2026 stopped. I mean, where are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}