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Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS?

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Pentcho Valev wrote:

> https://edge.org/response-detail/25477
>  What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings:
>  "Spacetime.
>  Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage
>  of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime...
>  (...) The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental
>  concept is profound..."

I disagree entirely. *Spacetime* describe almost perfectly the phenomenon 
and the mechanics of gravitation, by removing many unnecessary and wrong 
things introduced by other theories.

However, the *spacetime* may not be the whole story, since it does not 
explain its "plasticity", or what exactly attributed property enable 
spacetime to accomplish all that.

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Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Bohuš Matuška <bohu@paranetnet.net> - 2015-08-04 15:44 +0000
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