Re: What was the most \'revolutionary\' scientific theory of all time?
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I think the above two have been the most "revolutionary" and anything else is probably a distant third.
Hopefully there is a number three on the way during our life time. Maybe some type of unified theory.
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I think the grand quest for a unified theory in physics is more religious in nature than scientific. Isn't this similar to searching for a lowest order cause? Certainly it is a scientific pursuit, but many believe in it with no strong evidence that it even exists. I think a reasonable theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics or statistical mechanics would be much more interesting and useful, but that is probably because I work in that field (or vice versa).
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