The last time anyone proclaimed the end of science — at least, this is what I hear — was just before the arrival of relativity and quantum theory. Abstruse Goose’s brave new islands, quantum gravity and dark energy, are going to require new physics, and new physics is like seeing outside the optical, hearing outside the audible, and suddenly living in 27 dimensions. Woofies.
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I would like a ticket for the boat ride, please.
No ticket necessary, Rosie. Just sit here next to me.
The laws and theories we have now might be hindering our search for the secrets behind quantum physics; I imagine it took a great deal of blind faith for the first physicists to reach their theories, and in the case of classical mechanics and electromagnetism, almost all of these were based on observation.
It’s interesting to think that our search for classical science, especially physics, might have undermined our discovery of new ideas, which we’re not entirely prepared to accept based on the laws we already have.
Hawking proposed dropping the “information is never destroyed” principal, as it could be dropped into a black hole. So, scientists are willing to drop laws we have. And this lead to a new Principal. And it’s so odd, that it’s hard to believe anyone accepts it. The Holographic Principal. Yet, at least as far back as Bohr, there was talk of how the new theories might be crazy, but are they crazy enough to be true?
Scientists attempt to test these things all the time. Gravity Probe B attempted to test General Relativity. That’s recent.
Dark Energy was accepted phenominally easily. I’m astounded at how little Big Bang Theory seems to have changed as a result. It’s now like, “oh well, there’s no Big Crunch”.