[chronic_loser]

I am not aware of any scientific theory that I understand which has failed in a major way. >>>>

Although I am not sure what you mean by "in a major way" I am sure you would have to admit all of Newtonian Physics have "failed" when you move down to a subatomic level.

Newton and the "macro" world of physics just "feels" right to our perceptions and it is quite interesting to watch the physicists who play with these worlds insist that there will be a unified theory. The reason why this is interesting is that at present there is NO such coherent theory. Scientists posit that there must be such a theory with the same degree of faith that his quasi literate janitor recites the Lord's Prayer. The reason is that they WANT such a connection to exist. Without it, the universe is random and science ceases to exist.

I am with them that such a unified theory awaits discovery. What is fascinating is that this same person will mock the faith of others, say it belongs in a church and not a classroom, while predicating his whole scientific and academic career on a faith that differs not one whit from the fundamentalist he despises. That faith simply has another object.

[js1138]

Although I am not sure what you mean by "in a major way" I am sure you would have to admit all of Newtonian Physics have "failed" when you move down to a subatomic level.

Since I wrote the sentence you are responding to, let me explain. I was actually thinking of Newton when I inserted the phrase "major way." My writing isn't always clear when I'm in a hurry, but I was thinking that Newton still works perfectly well within a wide range of parameters. It certainly works perfectly within the range of what we can experience without instruments.

Good theories do not get proven wrong. They just get assigned or limited to a range of conditions.