>P.S. The latest research is creating more questions than answers. Reality is getting stranger by the minute.

And on its current path nothing will change. Science has pressed up to the borders of matter with math. Some math is easy, but to get further and further to what it really is, it needs to get more and more difficult.

I think they're at the point where they've gotten the most relevant information out of the current path that they'll get. If you look at our knowledge as a curve, it started out slow (the Greeks to Newton) and then picked up exponential speed in the following centuries to the acheivement of Relativity and Quantum Electrodynamics in the last century.

I think as we go into string theory and m-theory all we're doing is chasing that curve, up to infinity. The patterns we find won't make sense, but we'll invent some kind of mathematics to make it fit, and that will be knowledge.

Or so things will go if we stay on our current path. I came to this opinion last summer. Obviouslly, having no physics or difficult mathematics training my opinon does stand for a whole lot, but I found this the other day:

I'm now glad that our search for understanding will never come to an end, and that we will always have the challenge of new discovery.wIthout it, we would stagnate. Goedels theorem ensured there would always be a job for mathematicians.I think M theory will do the same for physicists.
Stephen Hawking
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/strtst/dirac/hawking/

So my gut feelings aren't too off base. In any case, that is of course if nothing major happens in the foundations of scientific knowledge.

I for one would prefer scientists to be a little bit more imaginative.