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I'm not too current. Last time I looked at this was 2016. My take is: Many experiments are conducted on "unique" equipment which is inaccessible to outsiders. This makes experiments irreproducible in the classical sense. For example, the CERN particle accelerator is the largest in the world, no other similar facilities exist. Much of the research done is on such facilities. 2. Scientists in the field agree upon a "standard model", which predicts certain phenomena but not others. For the other phenomena, they use a different model, which is incompatible or not reconciled with the first model. Both of these models resemble over-fitted models that describe but don't explain. There is no beautiful, elegant combination of geometry and mathematics to discover the underlying meaning of the universe there. 3. Experiment results are highly processed by researchers and constitute terabytes or petabytes of data which is easy to manipulate to suit a researcher's opinion or political ends. Lots of noise and very little discernible signal. 4. Recent experiments don't seem to be yielding new, novel, interesting or viable lines of thinking.


> There is no beautiful, elegant combination of geometry and mathematics to discover the underlying meaning of the universe there.

This is not a fair criticism. Its not like some of the smartest groups of people alive have not tried for over half a century. Nobody has the slightest real clue on a way out. What else to do, except to constantly try and break the model somehow?




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