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I'll give you long odds against. That would be tantamount to discovering a physical phenomenon that could not be described mathematically.
> a bit like my understanding of the relation between Newtonian mechanics, and General Relativity and Quantum mechanics.
Those relationships are well understood: Newton is a low-order approximation of GR in the weak-field limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Newtonian_expansion
The relationship between Newton and QM is explained, at least operationally if not philosophically, by decoherence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
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I'll give you long odds against. That would be tantamount to discovering a physical phenomenon that could not be described mathematically.
> a bit like my understanding of the relation between Newtonian mechanics, and General Relativity and Quantum mechanics.
Those relationships are well understood: Newton is a low-order approximation of GR in the weak-field limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Newtonian_expansion
The relationship between Newton and QM is explained, at least operationally if not philosophically, by decoherence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence