Editing Quantum Gravity (section)

=== 2019 ===

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|content=There is an interesting story I don’t know well enough. Many will recall the phrase “Unified Field Theory” as the hoped for ‘Theory of Everything.’ At some point this got replaced by [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]] as the goal. Does anyone know the full story behind this? Was it ‘70s? And how?
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|content=Theoretical physicists have known since the 1930s that quantum gravity is necessary to bring order into the laws of nature, writes @skdh, but 80 years on, a solution isn’t anywhere in sight. http://bit.ly/break-gravity
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|timestamp=6:31 AM · Feb 17, 2019
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|content=Ok. This is a weird take. The reluctance to engage foundations of quantum mechanics stemmed from the fact that it was far less generative than research in quantum field thy for decades. When Standard Model QFT stagnated &amp; [[Quantum Gravity]] stumbled, the opportunity cost decreased.
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|content=Shots fired! "Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics. Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it." -- me, in the New York Times @nytopinion #SomethingDeeply

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html
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|timestamp=10:09 PM · Sep 8, 2019
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|content=Does anyone know what @elonmusk thinks about the state of fundamental physics, unification, [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] and the impact any such progress may have on humanity’s chance for survival? I realize that I’ve never heard him connect fundamental physics progress to plans for humanity.
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