Maybe They Aren't So Bad After All

Maybe They Aren't So Bad After All
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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.

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