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Where is physics headed? No one knows for sure, but a remarkable new book reminds us what a big idea really looks like, finds Jon Cartwright Book Beyond the Quantum Antony Valentini Oxford University Press PHYSICS, it is fair to say, hasn’t gone to plan. After decades of hopeful searching, dark matter still hasn’t been directly detected. We found the Higgs boson, but nothing to pave the way forward. And string theory, that much-touted theory of everything, has yet to yield a clear, testable prediction. Confidence is low. Where do we go from here? In recent years, many physicist-authors of popular science have sidestepped that question. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3580期 · 2026年1月31日,Jon Cartwright。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。