Physics in the 2020s: what will happen over the decade ahead

Physics World  December 31, 2019
Many of the successes in physics over the last decade were honoured by Physics World through our annual Breakthrough of the Year . According to Physics World there will be plenty of downs as well as ups over the next 10 years. Physicists discoveries have transformed everyday life, not least in how we communicate. Powered by developments in semiconductor physics and optics, smartphones continue to be ever lighter, faster and more powerful over the next decade; Quantum computing and communication will become mainstream; Physics experiments will generate ever more data and analysing that information using artificial intelligence and machine learning will become “the new normal”; Environmental concerns having a bigger influence on physics; Scientific lab equipment will become cleaner and greener; Medical physics will continue to boom; the ITER fusion experiment in France should create its “first plasma” by mid-decade. But perhaps the biggest change in physics over the next 10 years will be in terms of diversity and equality…read more.

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