Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)
I feel like this illustrates a problem with the world of physics today (and other areas). This paper sounds like it could be the beginning of something new&#x2F;better. But the effort required to bring all of that together was probably significant, and I kept seeing &quot;to first order&quot; which indicates it&#x27;s nowhere near complete.<p>I guess my point is that QM took a long time, and work from a lot of people to reach the point it has. Any replacement will likely need a lot of work by a lot of people, and there don&#x27;t seem to be very many people working outside the box. Or perhaps that&#x27;s just because nobody wants to publish half-baked ideas. I&#x27;d rather see new ideas published and get shot down than yet another experiment confirming spooky action at a distance in some new configuration.