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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
(Modern physics is probably in that kind of trap today. They have set certain things as constants, beyond question. If they are less than completely correct, then they're going down a blind alley, with no way out, because the guild doesn't allow the constants to be questioned....and then wonder why there hasn't been a new Einenstein in over a 100 years.)
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Yeah. That would explain Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman and... oops.
I'm sure there are individual physicists who get emotionally attached to pet theories, and other individual physicists who are out there looking for ways to thoroughly test their theories, to the breaking point and beyond. The ones I know personally seem to fall into the latter category.