Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?

Name: Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?
ISBN: 9780521281782

Stephen Hawking · 1980

Physics & Cosmology

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dredmorbiusFeb 2024
Curious to see which of these have been discussed on HN:
1. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The Communist Manifesto", 1848.
No direct submissions.
2. Margaret Mead. "War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity", Asia, 1940.
No direct submissions.
3. Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind, 1950.
25 direct submissions, most discussion (13 comments) 7 years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12245426>
4. Martin Luther King, "The quest for peace and justice", Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, 1964.
No direct submissions
5. Robert Trivers, "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism", The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1971.
No direct submissions.
Three comment mentions to date: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>
6. Thomas Nagel, "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?", The Philosophical Review, 1974.
16 submissions. Two with substantive discussion: 7 years ago <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13998867>, 9 months ago <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771587>.
7. Stephen Hawking, "Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?", Physics Bulletin, 1981.
No direct submissions.
8. Oliver Sacks, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", 1985.
Two submissions, both with discussion, 9 months ago <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866734> and 8 years ago <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144420>
9. John Wheeler, "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links", Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 1989.
One submission, 6 years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15802155>
10. John Ioannidis. "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False", PLOS Medicine, 2005.
36 total submissions, notably: 1 year ago, 80 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33265439> 5 years ago, 40 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18106679> 5 years ago, 39 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016399> 13 years ago, 40 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1825007>
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Anon84Nov 2008
That student was (supposedly) Max Planck that went on to solve Black Body radiation and help give birth to Quantum Mechanics.
In the same vein... There is also a book by Stephen Hawking called "Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics: An Inaugural Lecture" from 1980... http://www.amazon.com/End-Sight-Theoretical-Physics-Inaugura...
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