From: patrick (patrick@kia.net)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 12:28:59 MDT
>
> But don't forget, 100 years ago theoretical physics also looked like
it
> was pretty much dead. Everything was understood, more or less. Then
> along comes general relativity and quantum mechanics. Oops, guess
there
> was some stuff we didn't know. I'm sure any TOE we come up with will
be
> stubbed by new discoveries. And, if we can't find any, then we'll
just
> have to create a new universe and start playing with that. :-)
No, relativity and quantum mechanics were introduced to explain
phenomena that were observed but not understood. Physics did not look
'dead' to anyone that was remotely interested in it.
Patrick
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