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1. Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 17:13:52 EST Oneesan succubus
   I wonder if I'll see a proper physics breakthrough in my lifetime... Zombie string theory has been going on for decades... Astrophysics isn't much better with 'lol dunno' dark matter.
   1. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 17:23:10 EST Hattie Cat

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      @lain  I'm a bit more optimistic. The discovery of an increasingly rapidly expanding universe and the Higgs boson, for instance. Or the discovery that maximum information containable in a region of space is a function of surface area, not volume, or formulations on the surface of a sphere are dual with formulations in 3d space. Paradigm-changing breakthroughs are harder to come by though - like unification of quantum physics and relativity.
   2. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 17:26:53 EST Hattie Cat

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      @lain For reference on holographic universes - inspired by string theory. https://phys.org/news/2017-01-reveals-substantial-evidence-holographic-universe.html  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
      1. Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 17:28:04 EST Oneesan succubus

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         @hattiecat "inspired by string theory" - the "based on a true story" of physics?