...obviously the physics landscape in 2024 is not simplified if you followed things thru 2023. Probabilities still go to the #Astros for progress, they have the advantage wrt instrumentation , data...and particle accelerators bigger than anything on Earth. The other side of that is those things tend to misbehave in ways that frequently suggest we don't t know what we think we know.So much for clearing things up

...now if we were to build an instrument sensitive enough to see so far into the cosmic past that we were actually able to see nonlinearities in time...possible anomalies of an inflationary regime...how long would it take for us to understand what we were looking at ?

Here's another discussion on #QM #Relativity and #QuantumGravity, including Erik Verlinde working the string theory side.
https://youtu.be/dvVBNaZc_WE?si=3bFMy9WhWuVy_aB1
It's worth noting that missing from both these discussions is the perspective from particle physics -the links between mass and massless regimes, the force carriers, unification energies and the primary interactions between #Mass and #Spacetime. Maybe somebody missed a flight or something