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Originally Posted by CraigS
Why is the method the problem ?
The 'tools' we've developed, (presumably), are GR/SR and QM .. Strings, Ms, etc. So there maybe some tools we are yet to develop .. I can see that ..
… but why would the process need over-hauling ? I'm not sure that its 'the scientific method' which attempts to answer anything .. humans attempt answers .. the process, (ie: method), is there to establish repeatability and provide predictions .. not answers.
( .. but Carl seems to have said that it does attempt answers ..??).
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The method is the problem because despite the fact it has developed a lot of very good tools for probing all these various questions, many of these tools (especially quantum physics) have come up against aspects of reality which they can't probe as they are because they're limited in what they can do...or have brought up new questions about processes they've discovered which they can't answer as they stand because of those same limitations. Mostly a limitation of knowledge on our part because we can't see past the limitations of the tools we use, at present. It's like trying to use a wrench to undo a wheel nut that's rusted onto a wheel when you have no rust killer to make the job a whole lot easier...or you don't know about rust killer to begin with. Tool may fit the nut but it can't do the job required of it because it lacks that something (rust killer) to free up the nut.