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Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS?

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Bohuš Matuška wrote:

> 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.

Coincidently, if such a property IS associated with spacetime, then an 
anti-gravity device, shielding and gravity generators MUST be possible to 
develop.

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WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-03 14:21 -0700
  Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 15:20 -0700
    Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? underante <underante@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-03 15:29 -0700
      Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 15:36 -0700
  Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-04 06:57 -0700
  Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Bohuš Matuška <bohu@paranetnet.net> - 2015-08-04 15:44 +0000
    Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Bohuš Matuška <bohu@paranetnet.net> - 2015-08-04 16:54 +0000

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