> How long will physicists ignore their own scientific history... I think the practical answer is "as long as it is necessary". Even today, we can accomplish quite a great deal armed with plain old Newtonian physics (which is also subject the same sort of empirical broadsides). Einstein's theorems will get patched until the next paradigm shift. Then we'll get to laugh at all the silly ancient ones in 20th century who bought into it. But for now, it is practically sufficient. I am assuming we are in agreement that we are discussing models of reality as expression of a limited form of mind i.e. the Human's and that we will never arrive at the actual full truth of these matters. Einstein's remark on the comprehensibility of the Universe comes to mind here. Perhaps that fact is not a feature of the universe but rather a bug of our (sentient) minds ..