alt Hacker NewsPlease do not conflate the broad "theoretical physics" with the very specific "beyond the standard model" physics questions. There are many other areas of physics with countless unsolved problems/mysteries.
Please do not conflate the broad "theoretical physics" with the very specific "beyond the standard model" physics questions. There are many other areas of physics with countless unsolved problems/mysteries.
Sure, there are things like "Really, how do superconductors work?", but nobody (mostly) believes that understanding things like that requires "new physics".
And, I think, most people would place that kind of stuff under "solid state physics" anyway.