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I'm almost certain parent meant the opposite: it looks as if everything is almost in place, but the UV catastrophe/Michelson-Morley eventually showed that physi
by lordgrenville 7y ago
I'm almost certain parent meant the opposite: it looks as if everything is almost in place, but the UV catastrophe/Michelson-Morley eventually showed that physics had giant holes in and led to massive theoretical breakthroughs.
Amusingly, Michelson said in the 1890s "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote...our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."
- SkyMarshal 7y agoYeah that Michelson quote is what I had in mind too. It feels like that kind of situation is still possible even today.
- Koshkin 7y agoYes, we definitely want to arrive to a universally accepted unification of gravity with quantum field theory. The M-theory, as sophisticated and promising as it is, does not cut it for some reason. That should tell us something.
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoYes thanks, this is what I meant, sorry for the lack of clarity