Две статьи в Physics Today.
Первая утверждает, что физика сегодня находится в глубоком кризисе.
Вторая возражает: никакого кризиса нет, всё хорошо.
Прочитав первую статью, я поверил первому автору. Прочитав вторую - второму. Что-то со мной слишком часто такое случается!
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Date: 2002-12-11 04:27 pm (UTC)You see, people sometimes fool themselves into thinking they're
so close to the ultimate Theory of Everything that there isn't
time for niceties like mathematical rigor and experimental
verification. In the long term this attitude can lead to
sloppiness and laziness. If there's any sort of "crisis"
in physics now, I think it's a buildup of this attitude in
certain quarters.
In short: it's not a crisis when physicists fail to figure out
the Theory of Everything on schedule. It is a crisis if they
become so impatient to reach the Theory of Everything that a
lot of them forget how to think clearly and carefully. It's
not too late to avoid this crisis, but we'll need to put some
work into it.
(John Baez)
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