@Leadfoot,
“…why there is so little progress in basic science.
When it comes to fundamentals, nothing has happened since the 1970s.”
Yes. The great physics – philosopher woody in PHF had consensus with you.
“It is perhaps surprising how little the fundamentals of physics have moved in the last 50 years...”
https://physicshelpforum.com/threads/introducing-myself.15045/post-43033
Piggy quoted Vanhees71’s comment in a physics site a few times in my own threads:
“Einstein abandoned quite quickly the idea of relativistic masses. If you want to introduce this very confusing idea that the mass depends on the velocity of a particle, then you must introduce not only one such quantity but at least two, i.e., "transverse and longitudinal mass". This is utmost confusing and thus not done anymore by physicists using the special or general theory of relativity in contemporary research,…”
This comment is very important. It demonstrates that actually Einstein’s Relativity is still toggling between “establish” and “abandon” in the “authentic” community. They can’t solve this specific big problem.
Another specific big problem in modern physics is the incompatible between Relativity and QM. It’s said that Einstein argued with those quantum physicists until he dead.
+ / -, + / -, could do nothing;
Toggle toggle, could do nothing either;
NEUTRAL NEUTRAL, could do nothing either;
AUTOPILOT MANUAL, could do nothing either;
0101, could do nothing either;
Okay, the J – 10 # hole PRESENCE! It could do nothing either;
2 – “f”, could do nothing either;
4 – “f”, could do nothing either;
Even 10 – “f”, could do nothing either;
BUBBLE BUBBLE…
Useless is useless.
G* surely is a bit unhappy. Haha
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“They weigh us down, with leaden feet, desiring none to fly.”
Yes, obviously. Those can fly bombard those on the ground into ash in battle field. So, who want you can fly? They only want you just employ stony knife. They even plot to CONTROL your consciousness, not allow you to think freely, so that you live in their absurd logic / order. Why not it’s a good thing for themselves?
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“But all we do is build taller towers.
Soon, all the way to Mars.”
Fun…
Can people build a tall tower all the way to the fringe of sky? This is a similar question as that of ancient people: “can we reach the fringe of the ground?”…until they climb high enough in the third spacial dimension…