Spirits and the incompleteness of physics

Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory

Spirits and the incompleteness of physics Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory Åsmund Folkestad Jun 20, 2025 319 70 80 Share In 1953, Richard Feynman ended a conference talk in Kyoto with an apology. The famous physicist seemed embarrassed—he'd left part of his problem unsolved. Feynman had been presenting on helium's superfluid phase, but phase transitions were new territory for him. After the talk however, the famously terse Nobel laureate Lars Onsager shared with the audience that Mr. Feynman is new in our field, and there is evidently something he doesn

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