> I said "every" because even some of the best work science has done, General Relativity and the Standard Model, were to my understanding an incompatible set of

> I said "every" because even some of the best work science has done, General Relativity and the Standard Model, were to my understanding an incompatible set of theories. If you insist on treating either one as though it were a fully fundamental theory, capable of explaining absolutely everything, then yes, they are not compatible. But you don't have to treat either theory that way in order to make the claim I was making. Even if both of those theories end up being approximations to some more fundamental theory, it remains true that, within the domains in which they have been tested, they make accurate predictions to many decimal places and have been shown to be thoroughly reliable. Certainly in any situation in which you might have to bet your life on one of those theories, you are going to be well within the domain in which they have been thoroughly tested. And within those domains, there is no incompatibility between them.