https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02789/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322060urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02789:49322060Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:45:06 GMT<p>What are your source to say so? Let&#x27;s take for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02789 It&#x27;s not even clear where String Theory is categorized in this article. Maybe High Energy Physics? Maybe Condensed Matter? It already shows how broad it is, as they already consider that people with such a different specific subject (for example theoretical dark matter in HEP or superconductivity in Condensed Matter) are not even &quot;changing field&quot; when they move to String Theory. In this article, you can see on Figure 1 that about 65% of physicists (similar in HEP and CondMatter) are also working on…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02789/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-phhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22462709urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02789:22462709Mon, 02 Mar 2020 08:38:00 GMT<p>The largest contingent of physicists do work on Condensed Matter Physics, which is essentially materials science https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02789.pdf For exactly, the reason you suggest: they get the largest amount of funding because it is the most economically useful subfield.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02789/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-ph