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From the final paragraph:

>But I’m less entertained by multiverse theories than I once was, for a couple of reasons. First, science is in a slump, for reasons both internal and external.

It is?? Does anyone know to what he's referring? From my un-scientific vantage point it seems to be thriving.

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Probably stuff like, we still don’t have any new particles despite spending a lot of money smashing stuff.

And string theory looks like it may have wasted a lot of people’s time with no result.

We do have new particles. The Higgs Boson was observed. Unless you don't count that because it was observed where we predicted it, but then you're just punishing scientists for being right.

Some people were hoping for more particles.

I’m not sure I agree... was just trying to explain why there is a perception of progress slowing down.

The large hadron collider hasn’t seen any evidence that SUSY is right. We have been stuck trying to develop a theory of quantum gravity for a long time. We are making a lot of progress in emergent fields, biology especially, but the fundamental fields have stalled on the biggest questions, imo.

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