> “Some people call it a crisis. That has a pessimistic vibe associated to it and I don’t feel that way about it,” said Garcia Garcia. “It’s a time where I feel like we are on to something profound.”
They are using past experience of a crisis (say from late 19-century) to infer what comes next is a major paradigm shift. This might very well be true, but we didn't know that. We should be optimistic about our career and the future of physics, true. But we should not be in denial that this is a crisis. There's absolutely no information (but hints) we have right now that tells you a breakthrough is coming. The next paradigm shift may happen in arbitrary far future, or may not happened at all if it is out of the reach of humanity.
Also, people don't call it crisis just because we hit a wall. But we're hitting a half century wall now (since 1970s.)
> “Some people call it a crisis. That has a pessimistic vibe associated to it and I don’t feel that way about it,” said Garcia Garcia. “It’s a time where I feel like we are on to something profound.”
They are using past experience of a crisis (say from late 19-century) to infer what comes next is a major paradigm shift. This might very well be true, but we didn't know that. We should be optimistic about our career and the future of physics, true. But we should not be in denial that this is a crisis. There's absolutely no information (but hints) we have right now that tells you a breakthrough is coming. The next paradigm shift may happen in arbitrary far future, or may not happened at all if it is out of the reach of humanity.
Also, people don't call it crisis just because we hit a wall. But we're hitting a half century wall now (since 1970s.)