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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
Eh. That'll happen once the scientific community stops worshipping Albert Einstein and sees that, like Newtonian physics, Relativity is just the current best *approximation* of what's going on.
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I for one am waiting for the day the particle physicists find a data point their Curve-fitting "Standard Model" can't ignore or accomodate in that Kludge of a theory.
For all that the SM supporters harp on String Theories being just mathematical constructs, at least there is an underlying insight behind the models. The Standard Model is like a bunch of blind guys measuring bits and pieces of a dead elephant without bothering to ponder if they have all of the corpse before them. A dead end, most likely.
Newton and Einstein's models had a fundamental insight expressed through math and later verified through experiment. Standard Mode is just curve fit data with no insight into why the menagerie exists, blind groping in the dark.
We'll do better at some point.
We just need a modern day Rutherford.