Worth noting that those ancient astronomers weren't wrong so to speak: each additional epicycle predicted the data better. What they were doing wasn't fraud the

Worth noting that those ancient astronomers weren't wrong so to speak: each additional epicycle predicted the data better. What they were doing wasn't fraud the way that, say, dowsing would be. Rather, they hadn't made the mental and cultural leap to the the much simpler model that made epicycles (almost always) obsolete. I think it's fair to say that physicists are well aware of the fact that this could be like finding more and more epicycles. In the sense that they're hoping they one day find a much simpler model to explain all this stuff than a big list of particles without a simpler theory behind all of it.