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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  3267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The LHC nightmare scenario has come true

    Also, I've got a healthy dose of schadenfreude for the plight of string theorists :).

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I'm of the idea that there will never be a perfect unifying theory, or at least not for long. Each improvement made by theorists will eventually cave as technology enables experimentalism to show inconsistencies. And maybe the timescales do get rather lengthy between theoretical advancements and experimentally-shown imperfections, but a finite amount of incognizance seems like a general theme of human existence. Besides, I can see a unifying theory raising just as many questions as answers.