Has anyone seen my neutral pointer?

[bennyboy]

Many scientists have been held back by many reasons.  Don't be coy, I like it direct.  

Who, please, tell me who it is that's clinging to billiards balls?  I want to know who you think it is, lol.

Quotation marks matter. Obviously, I don't mean that literally. However, scientists in the past century were obviously in a state of great conflict, and it was largely because some of them were looking for answers according to how they felt the universe SHOULD be, not how they had been observing it actually to be. In other words, their observations, and the avenues they were willing (or in some cases very stubbornly unwilling) to pursue were flavored by their world views-- i.e. their philosophical positions on reality. It was a movement to a less concrete world view, and a more abstract mathematical one, that allowed physics to move forward.