Theories of how quarks, electromagnetism and gravity produce planets with intelligent species on them are scientific accomplishments by virtue of the compression they achieve, regardless of why quarks appear to be a thing.
There’s no general agreement on what science is supposed to achieve—specifically, there is an instrumentalism versus realism debate. For realists, it does matter if science fails to discover what’s really real.
Theories of how quarks, electromagnetism and gravity produce planets with intelligent species on them are scientific accomplishments by virtue of the compression they achieve, regardless of why quarks appear to be a thing.
There’s no general agreement on what science is supposed to achieve—specifically, there is an instrumentalism versus realism debate. For realists, it does matter if science fails to discover what’s really real.