TL;DR: scientists are still pursuing science.

> Eichhorn and her colleagues are pursuing a different possibility. In 1976, Steven Weinberg, a theorist who would eventually earn a Nobel Prize, pointed out that if you zoomed in far enough, you might reach a place where the rules of physics would stop changing. New realms would stop appearing; the intensities of the forces would stabilize; and gravity would turn out to make perfect sense after all.

>TL;DR: scientists are still pursuing science.

if that is the entirety of what you took away from reading this (or, the entirety of what you think other people should take away), that is a shame.