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Re:Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics by lordgrenville on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:26AM (#21969779)
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."

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Re:Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics by SkyMarshal on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:23PM (#21972865)
Yeah that Michelson quote is what I had in mind too. It feels like that kind of situation is still possible even today.
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Re:Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics by Koshkin on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:04PM (#21973298)
Yes, 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.
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Re:Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics by BrandoElFollito on Saturday January 11, 2020 @11:44AM (#22020791)
Yes thanks, this is what I meant, sorry for the lack of clarity
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