re: #16 zombie

Firt off that was really well written, but paradigm shifts are not always as disruptive as you think. Particularly in physics.

QM did not destroy classical E&M or Newton, it only looked at a different place.

Einstein did not destroy Newton. Einstein’s gravity contains Newtons. Newton was perfectly correct for where he was looking - in the sense that Newton had no reason to think that Gravity could affect space-time - and unless you have a lot of gravity, you can not see the effect.

Once something is a theory, it means that it has made multiple correct predictions that were observed to be so. Any new theory has to explain the same things we already saw happen in the previous theory.