Adam Brown: observation

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…Really? Well, in the narrow domain of high-energy theoretical physics. There are many more physicists than that if you include people more generally, but they're sufficiently specialized. I mean, that's partly part of the reason is that it's a much more specialized field. So in a very specialized field, the number of people who would actually write that paper is a much smaller number. How much do you ascribe the slowness of physics to these kinds of things that are just intrinsic to any field that is as specialized and as mature versus to any particular dysfunctions of physics as a field?…

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