The nature of a paradigm shift is that it recasts all the existing laws of nature as special cases of a more powerful, more general model of reality.

Who knows, maybe we'll find that we actually are living in a simulation and then figure out how to hack the matrix. The idea of "travel" and "time" would become obsolete then; you'd just poke new values for your wave function into the simulation's RAM.

This seems implausible for many reasons, it seems more likely that if we're living in a simulation, we'll have trouble figuring out how to proloxify the feeblegarps.

> proloxify the feeblegarps

Did you just invent these two words? I googled them separately and your comment is litterally the only hit. Chapeau!

Yes. The idea is that if we "break out" of whatever simulation we purportedly exist within, none of the concepts in the enclosing universe would make any sense to us.

(I happened to be watching How A Plumbus is Made when I wrote the comment, btw).

A radically different paradigm of physics would result in technologies that can't be imagined in the present paradigm of physics. For example nobody had even remotely guessed that transistors were possible until well in to the development of solid state theory.

we have plenty of unrealized technologies that can be imagined in the present paradigm but that we're not exploiting yet (see for example recent advances in 2D topological materials).

(based on my understanding of transistors, the first ones were conceived before the theory for them existed, and the first ones were built around the same time the quantum theory for them was expressed).