As creators of the new physics have proposed increasingly abstract descriptions of nature, the ‘‘testability’’ of their theoretical constructs has markedly declined. While the current problems are not different in kind from those characterizing other eras in the evolution of physics, they do appear to be substantially different in degree from past experience. This situation, exacerbated by an incongruously strong confidence in the standard paradigms of particle physics and cosmology, is a cause for concern.
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1988
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