Sabine Hossenfelder: There are areas where physics blurs into religion
She&#x27;s absolutely right. When I was a kid I watched and read a lot of Brian Greene&#x27;s stuff about string theory. I even saw him give a talk in person about the multiverse in grad school (I studied biology). The truth is, Greene is brilliant but his idea of science veers into fantasy. There&#x27;s an entire generation of physicists who grew up during an era where all the low hanging experimental fruit evaporated. A modern physics experiment costs millions if not billions of dollars. Some of these physicists in their 50s have no idea what experimental science looks like, and this mentality has bled into the popular consciousness of what scientists do.<p>It&#x27;s in biology where you still have ample low hanging fruit in terms of experiments. I feel if you&#x27;re a brilliant physics grad in 2022, don&#x27;t waste your time on string theory - apply some of that knowledge to chemistry and biology