Comments on: Two Big Questions Physics Isn’t Addressing http://www.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/two-big-questio.html Leo Parker Dirac on Business and Technology Trends Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:21:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric Lippert http://www.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/two-big-questio.html/comment-page-1#comment-268 Eric Lippert Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:57:06 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/two-big-questio.html#comment-268 <p>One night I come across a man looking around beneath a streetlight. "I dropped my keys" he says. "Under this streetlight?" I ask. "No, farther down the street. But this is where there's light to search by."</p> <p>A lot of the seemingly big questions in physics are not under active research because we have no lead on an attack on the problem. I would love faster-than-light space travel, cheap teleportation, or even something relatively easy, like the ability to control gravity as easily as we control electromagnetism -- but where to even begin?</p> <p>We're going to keep looking under the streetlights for a while I think.</p> One night I come across a man looking around beneath a streetlight. "I dropped my keys" he says. "Under this streetlight?" I ask. "No, farther down the street. But this is where there's light to search by."

A lot of the seemingly big questions in physics are not under active research because we have no lead on an attack on the problem. I would love faster-than-light space travel, cheap teleportation, or even something relatively easy, like the ability to control gravity as easily as we control electromagnetism — but where to even begin?

We're going to keep looking under the streetlights for a while I think.

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