alt Hacker NewsBut 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
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
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.