How Physicists Failed to Recognize the Failure of Modern Physics

The belief in the absolute correctness of the foundational concepts in modern physics and the perceived beauty of the constructions based on those concepts has prevented physicists from waking up to the reality that modern physics has gone a long way in the wrong direction. Physics has long run into complex problems: dark matter, dark energy, black holes, string theory, multiverse, . . . . Physicists are still searching for yet more complex, highly mathematical and abstract solutions having no connection with the real world. Losing sight of simple yet subtle solutions may have led to this situation.