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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5892955" data-attributes="member: 8835">of course not.  If I don't have the background to fully understand quantum physics, how would I have the background to understand an alternative physics model?What I accept however, is that which a scientist in the know accepts as true today, may be disproven tomorrow as a more complex and better understanding emerges.  Which is the foundation of the scientific method.most of the other sciences operate at the directly observable level.  quantum physics does not.  at some point, it's just math and a good idea.Remember, folks thought Ether and Phlogiston was also a pretty good explanation as well.Assuming a contunuing rate of technological advance, in the future, scientists will have the technology to make it very obvious* whether today's current theories are correct or not.  But then, they will begin seeking to have the new uncuttable and present theories and math on that.*Obvious to normal people as in Higgs Hair Restorer Cream and teleporters, and pictures as pretty as the ones from Saturn</blockquote>