[thyristan]

Every physical description of reality is correct to within some error bars. Quantum mechanics is still useful and correct, there are just more precise theories that provide refinement. And in that sense are the "current" theories if they are the most precise ones currently known.

[IAmBroom]

Not true at all. Blackbody radiation goes to infinity with Wien's distribution; error bars aren't going to get you there.

Likewise, our 1/r^2 understanding of forces goes to infinity as distance goes to zero, but we currently can't resolve that problem with error bars for the nucleus of an atom, where Heisenberg tells us any two protons can sometimes appear closer to each other than the "radius" of the nucleus.

You can't make Schottky diodes using Maxwell and error bars.

That is the entire problem: the classical models weren't merely inaccurate; they predicted completely absurd (and provably wrong) results at extreme scales.

[GoblinSlayer]

Infinite error bars.

[chermi]

What? What are the more precise theories that aren't fundamentally QM?

[GoblinSlayer]

Quantum field theory and string theory. Fundamentally they are QM, but not formally.

[hoseja]

I didn't know string theory makes any verified more precise predictions.

[GoblinSlayer]

Quantum gravity is difficult to verify, because it's exotic, so it remains a theoretical exercise.