sheer intuition based upon the adage "you don't know what you don't know", repeated incorrect assumptions that we've finally discovered fundamental building blocks of reality, and lack of capacity for imagination (sorry—I tried!) for what the discovery of absolutely positively provably fundamental building blocks of reality could even potentially look like
> repeated incorrect assumptions that we've finally discovered fundamental building blocks of reality
Physics has had the other problem for a while now - they know the current theory is wrong, but they can't find any evidence to disprove it, and it's wasting generations of scientists and particle accelerators to do it.
And what basis does that claim rest on