It seems to me that missing lately from this thread is the idea of successive refinement.

In particular, the Newtonian physics is a special case of relativistic physics, one that holds very well at normal mass/energy levels.

Any scientific theory can (and probably will be) refined repeatedly. This is, after all, part of the scientific method.

How, then, this process of revision would lead to its demise, is beyond me.

Megacomputing, etc, are nothing more or less than refinements.

And refinements in a philosophy that encourages substantitive refinements is hardly the death of the philosophy.