http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/19991116/t000104284.html
To quote in part:
"The history of physics," says Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger,
"is the history of giving up cherished ideas."
Concurs physicist Nathan Seiberg, of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton:
"I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are
primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated."