On Scientific
American’s Cross-Check, blogger John Horgan offers a post entitled “How Physics Lost
Its Fizz,” arguing that “Physics, which decades ago seemed capable of answering
the deepest mysteries of existence, is now just recycling once-exciting ideas.”
That’s true, of course, but what I want to tell you about isn’t John’s thoughts
but a comment from one of his readers, identified only as daktari.
The comment is about the need for a new
paradigm from time to time to allow continued progress in science, a point of
view that I blogged on here. The spacetime model that I
talk about in this blog is such a new paradigm, capable of putting the fizz
back in physics.
