Science’s dark period

“We have reached a Kuhnian ‘crisis’ in several disciplines, if current discourse is anything to go by. The visible universe is now said to contain only 5% of the total mass/energy; the rest is ‘dark’, of a type we do not know. Quantum Mechanics (QM) remains as incomprehensible as ever, and the ether is making a sneaky comeback …” (more)

[University Blog on Academic Tenure, 19 October]

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