The Humbling of Scientific Research

I stumbled upon an article in the NYTimes: Finding From Particle Research Could Rewrite Known Laws of Physic, which speaks to newly discovered subatomic particle behavior that seems to defy our textbook physics. It immediately struck me as a topic worth speaking to and for good reason:

We have lived through a decade of a dramatic drop in the price of storing vast quantities of data, amidst exponentially more powerful compute; capable of calculations incomprehensible a mere 10 years ago.

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