<story><title>Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]</title><url>https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ma8ee</author><text>I think this is the Royal Academy of Sciences way to admit that Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt. String theory suffocated theoretical high energy physics for nearly half a century with nothing to show for it, and a lot of other areas of fundamental physics are kind of done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eigenket</author><text>I think this is (very) inaccurate. It feels more like them trying to jump on a &amp;quot;hot topic&amp;quot; bandwagon (machine learning&amp;#x2F;AI hype is huge).&lt;p&gt;Physics as a discipline hasn&amp;#x27;t really stalled at all. Fundamental physics arguably has, because no one really has any idea how to get close to making experimental tests that would distinguish the competing ideas. But even in fundamental physics there are cool developments like the stuff from Jonathan Oppenheim and collaborators in the last couple of years.&lt;p&gt;That said &amp;quot;physics&amp;quot; != &amp;quot;fundamental physics&amp;quot; and physics of composite systems ranging from correlated electron systems, and condensed matter through to galaxies and cosmology is very far from dead.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]</title><url>https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ma8ee</author><text>I think this is the Royal Academy of Sciences way to admit that Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt. String theory suffocated theoretical high energy physics for nearly half a century with nothing to show for it, and a lot of other areas of fundamental physics are kind of done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mppm</author><text>It really has not, though. There is more to physics than high-energy and cosmology, and there is no shortage of deserving contributions of smaller scope. It really is bizarre that deep learning would make it to the top of the list.</text></comment>