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A theory gets abandoned when the old explanation becomes visibly insufficient: special relativity made Newtonian gravity's action at a distance impossible, and that was the forcing function.

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physics Fundamental physics: unification, relativity and quantum mechanics, and whether string theory is still the candidate.

What Michael Nielsen actually said

  1. Michael Nielsen Physicist, writer and researcher
    Um and so, it's not a big leap to realize, "Oh, we have a big problem here." Um and so, you know, that's kind of the that's the forcing function there. It's it's you've realized that your old explanation is not sufficient. You need something new.

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