If calling it science bothers you, then call it mathematics instead. It's obvious to everyone involved that GM and QM, both the best physically verified theori

If calling it science bothers you, then call it mathematics instead. It's obvious to everyone involved that GM and QM, both the best physically verified theories at their respective energies, are deeply incompatible with one another. Unfortunately, physical situations where we can see them disagreeing are outside of our reach at the moment. You're suggesting the entire physics community just give up theorizing until we can plausibly reach unification energies, even if that's a thousand years from now? > it just seems like vanity to pursue unification that provides no insight into the complex world around us Pure theory has a funny habit of finding applications in the most unexpected places. Anyway, if it's an interesting problem, and people want to spend their time thinking about it, who are we to tell them to stop?