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No, that's not what I'm saying. Scientific progress occurs in cycles where periods of lots of small steps, detours, dead ends, and accumulation of data alternate with big breakthroughs that occur when the time is ripe for them.
A breakthrough (what I called a curtain pulled away) will not invalidate previous results but rather reaffirm them as special cases in a now much bigger scenario that wasn't seen before. And it will take care of some of the stuff that couldn't be explained before.
Cheers
Steffen.
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