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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Damn, you're really good at identifying miniscule differences!

Seriously though, I was attempting to highlight how truly unremarkable these changes are when viewed from a grand enough scale. That's not to say I dont understand, I do, and nuclear/particle physics are fields absolutely filled to the brim with things worth waxing poetic about. And when viewed from a field that deals with meta-analysis of physical laws themselves, the differences that people are excited for start to appear... pretty mundane. Every person on earth is similar yet different, but we all avoid that guy who shares his life story at the drop of a hat because, to (badly) paraphrase Syndrome, "once everything is unique, nothing is."

The nihilist vs. absurdist meme is popular now and does seem to serve this example well - It's not that these changes dont matter or aren't cool, it's that nothing matters and probably everything is arbitrary, and that is in of itself cool! It raises so many unanswered questions ~~that string theorists would love to tell you the answers to but no! I cast you out, you and your vile "branes"! Back! Back in your caves you slime beasts! We shall not treat your physics fanfic this day!~~ that we just don't even have guesses as to what could maybe possibly be the answers yet! Hell, we're not even sure the holographic universe theory is right, but more than half the physics community is convinced enough to get published in Nature while assuming it.

There's so much wild stuff being discovered right now, I guess it's just sad to see people hung up on physical properties that were largely solved more than 50 years ago.