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The 2016 question:
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT?
Includes some interesting physics related essays. A couple of them are on the theme that the big news is what was not found:
Paul J. Steinhardt
The Big Bang Cannot Be What We Thought It Was
Antony Garrett Lisi
The News That Wasn’t There
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT?
Includes some interesting physics related essays. A couple of them are on the theme that the big news is what was not found:
Paul J. Steinhardt
The Big Bang Cannot Be What We Thought It Was
The new claim from the team, published in recent months, is that there is no sign of the cosmic polarization they had been seeking despite an extensive search with extraordinarily sensitive detectors.
The retraction received considerable attention but the full import of the news has not been appreciated: we now know that the Big Bang cannot be what we thought it was.
The News That Wasn’t There
However, despite the well-deserved attention accorded to the discovery of the Higgs, this was not the biggest news. The biggest recent news in fundamental physics is what has NOT been discovered: superparticles.