3. TIL Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost ...

TIL Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered". Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals. He went on to originate quantum theory and win a Nobel Prize.

No turn arounds yet, but we're getting there. We still haven't figured out how quantum field theory and general relativity fit together. There are some theories popping up that haven't been confirmed yet, such as string theory or loop quantum gravity.

Other comments here are saying that it hasn't turned around in ~100 years. That might be true, but before quantum physics and relativity, classical mechanics reigned for much longer than that and before that, physics practically did not exist.

To me, the of patching general relativity and QFT together sounds a bit like Phillip von Jolly's "unimportant hole". Who knows if the theory of everything will hold something amazing.

I think it's shortsighted to think that everything has been discovered, because we've been thinking that ever since we've existed, yet every now and then a mega genius is born and proves us all wrong.

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