> It's just interesting to me, another reminder that physics is just that much more easier than anything else.
Such a statemenrs make me nervous.
In the late XIX century physics professors told their students that they should stop learning physics and go to some other science, because physics is almost complete. It explains almost everything there are some small issues with electromagnetism which will be solved in a few decades and there would be no more work for physicists. No more physics as a science, just engineering.
At that time physics seemed much more easier than anything else. Like it seems now for you, I suppose.
Though maybe there would be no more Einsteins, and physics really explained almost everything for this time.
No, the point is that in physics you isolate systems and get rid of all the messy stuff.
Compare particle physics to cell biology, for example. Of course the first has complicated math and a lot of ressources thrown at it, but in essence these isolate the thing to measure. How would you even do that with cells?
A vacuum or laser lab may be complicated or finicky and capricious to work with, but it is nothing compared to a bio lab and the influences on the organisms you try to study.
At least bosons don't react differently when you look at them funny or with the time of day (we assume). (addendum: Like lab mice that change massively depending on the handlers.)
Such a statemenrs make me nervous.
In the late XIX century physics professors told their students that they should stop learning physics and go to some other science, because physics is almost complete. It explains almost everything there are some small issues with electromagnetism which will be solved in a few decades and there would be no more work for physicists. No more physics as a science, just engineering.
At that time physics seemed much more easier than anything else. Like it seems now for you, I suppose.
Though maybe there would be no more Einsteins, and physics really explained almost everything for this time.