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I first started to notice that the process of science itself was not static (as I was led to believe in school), but evolving, when I got interested in Chaos theory in the early 90's and began to learn as much about it as I could.

I think that this (practically new) branch of science started a kind of revolution in the way scientists think about nature's law philosophically. In spite of the fact that Chaos theory has been over-hyped by some people as replacing other physics (it hasn't and it won't), it started scientists thinking that the philosophy of reductionism may not be a correct way to analyze everything about the universe.

String theory proponents are in danger of doing this as well. While the concepts behind string theory are elegant and MAY show truly great promise, it's too soon for its adherents to start popping champagne corks and celebrating their Ultimate Theory Of Everything before ANY experiment to try to validate its predictions has yet to be run.

I'm glad you posted this story. As long winded as it seems, it's a good read on the evolution of science, which happens to be my favorite topic. :^)

"...Ultimate Theory Of Everything..."

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(sorry - couldn't resist, lol)

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