I think the answer is yes and no--I fundamentally disagree with the assumptions science makes to allow it to grow, so I feel that it is inevitable that physics would tend toward meaninglessness as it reapproaches its own assumptions. At the same time, I think that the progress and history of physics is an all-too-familiar narrative leading from exuberance to disappointment to general confusion. But, in confusion a space opens up where we're ready for a miracle, ready for the impossible...
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