Warp wrote:
>   Why do I always get the feeling that quantum gravity reverses the normal
> scientific process of discovery-theory? In other words, normally a new
> unknown phenomenon is discovered, studied, measured and then theories are
> developed to explain how it works and perhaps why.
> 
>   With quantum gravity the direction seems reversed: They have formed the
> theory of a gravitational quantum *first*, and now they are really hard
> trying to discover it somehow.

Had a look at String Theory lately? ;-)

http://www.xkcd.com/171/

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