At some point, someone will make a major theoretical breakthrough that will explain the mysterious wave-particle duality of electromagnetic radiation and radically change the understanding of energy, matter, space, time and gravity.
I expect that this theory will be resisted by the establishment much more fiercely than were Einstein’s relativity theories or quantum mechanics theory, because it will call into question the absoluteness of the fixed time scales laid down by Hawking and others based on a maximum speed “c” of light.
For those who don't know: everything we know about the universe comes from James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century. He published 200 quaternions as he called them - all describing fields.
But alas a self-educated, pompous, knowitall by the name of Heavyside declared them impossible 'abominations', threw out all but four, and chaged those from field to vector - and presto-chango, this brought us all we know which lies beneath absolutely everything dealing with electromagnetic radiation of any kind – physics, chemistry, computers, radio, television, cell phones, lasers, you name it - the universe was revealed.
From there came Einstein.
And you ask just what did the original quaternions describe? The way to step from here to anywhere else in the universe without actually moving and so... you get the picture.
But since they were fields which, as everyone knows, are impossible abominations, no point in actually looking at them again, right? Best to stick with safe vectors, we wouldn't actually want energy from the fabric of the universe for nothing - shhesh.
While Maxwell died in relative obscurity, as befited his act of descreation, Heavyside died in poverty.