The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world—released today—shows a distinct lack of consensus across many of physics's most important questions, from the nature of black holes and dark matter, to the still-incomplete unification of Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics.
  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    The “standard model of cosmology” aka lambda-CDM model has never claimed to be complete or to explain everything. It’s just a good fit to the known data going most of the way (but not all of the way) back to the big bang. Everybody knows that understanding the unreached parts will require totally new physics.