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[whatshisface]

Unless you mean "almost all PBS physics documentary budget dollars," I don't think almost all resources were bet on it.

[Ma8ee → whatshisface]

From the money available for fundamental questions like quantum gravity and beyond standard model physics, almost all resources were bet on it.

It's kind of cute how some people now are trying to rewrite history when it is more and more obvious that it was a dead end.

[whatshisface → Ma8ee]

There has to be a couple of orders of magnitude difference between "funders thought it was the best bet for quantum gravity," and "it was all physicists did for thirty years, full stop."

[Ma8ee → whatshisface]

I, nor anyone else I saw (I haven't read all comments), have claimed that that was what physics did for thirty years. If you read my comments you'll see that I have been quite careful to qualify my statements when it hasn't been blaringly obvious from context.