Yikes, I fell for it. To your knowledge is there any period in the history of physics were prominent scholars seemed to think that most of the work was done?
I don’t think such a period exists. The closest thing is modern times, when a lot of people think string theory will become the “theory of everything”. Or maybe the times just before the gargantuan size of the string landscape was discovered. But I think that even the most optimistic string theorists, out of those that can be called prominent scholars, would say that a lot of work yet remains.
Yikes, I fell for it. To your knowledge is there any period in the history of physics were prominent scholars seemed to think that most of the work was done?
I don’t think such a period exists. The closest thing is modern times, when a lot of people think string theory will become the “theory of everything”. Or maybe the times just before the gargantuan size of the string landscape was discovered. But I think that even the most optimistic string theorists, out of those that can be called prominent scholars, would say that a lot of work yet remains.