Future of Physics

Physics can use itself to produce new fundamental insights.

upside-down view of physics

First design a new law and then reverse engineer a system that actually displays the phenomena.

A shift in the very scope of science — from studying what is to what could be

• In the 20th century, scientists sought out the building blocks of reality
• This century, we explore all there is to be made with these building blocks

Nature’s agonizingly slow process of discovery is accelerated to breakneck speeds in the laboratory.

Science also concerns the phenomena created in our laboratories and in our heads.