Is Physics Nearing Its End or Just Beginning?

[af394]

I just want to know the future prospects of every field of physics.Who can offer me an introduction?

 

[Doc Al]

As Max Planck's physics teacher supposedly told him (c. 1880):

Physics is finished, young man. It's a dead-end street.​

 

[vebrown]

I just want to know the future prospects of every field of physics.Who can offer me an introduction?

As an old engineer, I am biased, but if it is advice you're looking for, I would say learn as much physics as you can then apply it in the field of engineering. We get paid more than the researchers, but I imagine they have more fun

 

[G01]

I'm going into condensed matter physics, and like to try to turn others onto the field. There is a lot of research, theoretical, experimental, and applied, going on in CM. Also CM has a good amount of funding, but also has more competition for the money.

There is a lot of interesting new research going on in condensed matter. High temperature superconductors, quantum computing, and Bose-Einstein condensates are just a few of the topics being studied by CM research groups out there.

 

[af394]

DOC AI,I guess what you mean is that,physics seems to be finished,but actually we have much to do in the field.Right?

 

[djeitnstine]

DOC AI,I guess what you mean is that,physics seems to be finished,but actually we have much to do in the field.Right?

All that's left in physics is stamp collecting

 

[Pengwuino]

DOC AI,I guess what you mean is that,physics seems to be finished,but actually we have much to do in the field.Right?

It's a joke. Throughout history, physicists always thought that they were juuuuust about to figure out everything there is to know about physics and then something ground-breaking occurs that throws what we thought we knew about physics into question and eventually entire new fields and theories come into play.