Reply To: Proliferation?

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: I get a kick out of all those with a better physics education than Einstein that are afraid to publicly challenge any and/or all 4 parts of the theory of relativity, which was published 104 years ago. Wasn’t Einstein working on a unified field theorum when he died?

So far, tests of GR have supported it, including such things as “frame dragging”, measured from orbit. The problem is synching it with QM (which Einstein resisted as a theory until his dying day — the famous “God does not play dice” was his objection to resorting to probabilities at a fundamental event/causal level. He also disliked the “spooky action at a distance” aspect of entanglement. A very cause-and-effect kind of guy!) So it’s more like fear of making readily provably false statements that inhibits physicists, I think.