Patreon.com slash Sean M. Carroll is where you go to give support to the Mindscape podcast. I mentioned on Twitter that we've been experimenting with this new thing where at the end of every podcast I do a little reflection video. Maybe I will reveal some secrets that you don't get to hear if you're not a Patreon supporter. Who knows? Are you willing to take that chance? That's the real question.
Physics is in crisis, what else is new? That's what we hear in certain corners, anyway, usually pointed at "fundamental" physics of particles and fields. (Condensed matter and biophysics etc. are just fine.) In this solo podcast I ruminate on the unusual situation fundamental physics finds itself in, where we have a theoretical understanding that fits almost all the data, but which nobody believes to be the final answer. I talk about how we got here, and argue that it's not really a "crisis" in any real sense. But there are ways I think the academic community could handle the problem better, especially by making more space for respectable but minority approaches to deep puzzles.
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/31/245-solo-the-crisis-in-physics/
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