{"id":14006,"date":"2013-08-15T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14006"},"modified":"2013-08-15T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:00:16","slug":"its-not-einstein-against-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14006","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Not Einstein Against the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/08\/14\/black_hole_firewall_paradox_nyt_wants_to_put_einstein_against_modern_day.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> Wants to Fight Einstein, Einstein Declines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short, snarky version: Everyone should be shocked, SHOCKED! that general relativity doesn&#8217;t work where quantum theory is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew also rightly points out that framing a relativity experiment as a cult-of-personality exercise is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Newer theories supplant older ones conceptually, but <em>every<\/em> theory is provisional, constantly tested by experiments and observations. Einstein, important as he was in 20th-century physics, is not the ultimate authority even on his own theories, and refinements to his work should not be framed as proving him right or wrong. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Wants to Fight Einstein, Einstein Declines Short, snarky version: Everyone should be shocked, SHOCKED! that general relativity doesn&#8217;t work where quantum theory is needed. Matthew also rightly points out that framing a relativity experiment as a cult-of-personality &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}