We are likely going to find out that both are unfixably faulty.

It'll take either the next Einstein or some groundbreaking experimental observation to get there in my opinion.

If it was possible to incrementally fix these theories, the army of postdocs working on these would have already done so in the last decade or so.

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wongarsu 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But at least the experimental results disproving these incremental fixes should be exactly the kind of thing the next Einstein should need for coming up with an entirely new way of looking at things

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fooker 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Interestingly, more often than not it happens the other way.

Some once-in-a-generation scientist has an intuition that turns out to be true and mathematically elegant.

It gets proven experimentally years or decades later.

Relativity was exactly like this.

	▲	messe 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was far from exactly like that. GR was in part prompted by the precession of the perihelion of mercury for which there was plenty of data.

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anthonypasq 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you think the deepest mysteries of reality and the universe should just reveal themselves because we have a couple thousand smart people working on it for... 10 years?