Since Newton, the foundations of physics progressed in a virtuous cycle of hypothesis and experiment until the cycle broke 40 years ago. A bigger collider will not solve the problem
Astrophysicists have piled up observations that are difficult to explain with dark matter. It is time to consider that there may be more to gravity than Einstein taught us
A physicist decries the trend of chasing after aesthetically pleasing theories that lack empirical evidence
Einstein’s thought experiments left a long and somewhat mixed legacy of their own
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