We're largely in agreement. On a philosophical point of view, it worries me that physics might be optimizing towards a local maxima. Which might or might not b

We're largely in agreement. On a philosophical point of view, it worries me that physics might be optimizing towards a local maxima. Which might or might not be the global one. That there even might be something big it has missed. How would we know? Even more so because physicists seem to be more and more specialized to a narrow sub-field. Everything is already so advanced it takes more and more years to just to master it. Individual contributions appear to be getting smaller and smaller. Is it possible there's something they don't see because they're too near looking at it? Studying a mountain with a microscope. Is possible we're stuck in a some sort of dead end? I really can't judge it either way. I just can't stop wondering about that.