Brilliant exposition, Cameron! My untutored thought is that we have pushed scaling as far as we need to. Future improvements will hardly reward the effort. However, I don't feel we have hit a "wall". Physics has come to these grinding halts before and always a new paradigm emerges and we trudge forward again. So I'm hopeful. I do dislike that research is becoming secret. Driven by commercial and nationalistic rivalries this does no one any good. We'll come to regret it.
Excellent, thank you!!
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Brilliant exposition, Cameron! My untutored thought is that we have pushed scaling as far as we need to. Future improvements will hardly reward the effort. However, I don't feel we have hit a "wall". Physics has come to these grinding halts before and always a new paradigm emerges and we trudge forward again. So I'm hopeful. I do dislike that research is becoming secret. Driven by commercial and nationalistic rivalries this does no one any good. We'll come to regret it.
Thank you! And, I totally agree!