this shit's been going on forever. they told einstein not to bother with physics because it was a closed field. ha. and as i'm typing this, most people don't realize that the process we just went through to find the higgs closed a theory we already knew was unworkably wrong.

rather, we're on the cusp of some radical rethinking that will toss a lot of ideas we hold to into the trash bin.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/01/17/end-of-science-meme-infects-edge-website-again/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook