The eternal disciplinary rivalry suddenly shifted during the pandemic. While biologists and chemists became overnight heroes developing vaccines and treatments, physicists were left contemplating string theory in isolation. Nothing like a global health crisis to make theoretical physicists realize that sometimes understanding the quantum nature of reality doesn't help you fight a virus. The tables have turned. For once, the "soft sciences" got to save the world while the physics department sent regretful Zoom messages from their basements.
Maybe They Aren't So Bad After All

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