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"Tom Roberts" <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Pentcho Valev wrote:
>> EINSTEINIANS BOTHERED BY EINSTEIN'S 1954 CONFESSION
>
> I rarely respond to idiots and smarmy trolls, but chose to make an
> exception in this case because there is a lesson involved that others
> might find either useful or interesting.
>
>> Albert Einstein 1954: "I consider it entirely possible that physics
>> cannot be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous
>> structures."
>
> Einstein created several interesting and elegant theories, SR and GR,
> which have served as the foundation of other interesting and elegant
> theories, QED, QFT, the standard model, etc. All are based on fields
> (continuous structures), including the quantum theories.
>
> People who understand what science actually is, know it is a QUEST, a
> process, a journey, and not merely a static body of knowledge. Such people
> are not "bothered" by Einstein's statement at all. He is merely saying
> that his theories ("castle in the air") are just steps along the path that
> is physics, and are not the final endpoint -- obvious to anyone who truly
> understand science.
>
> Indeed, modern approaches to quantum gravity are not based on fields or
> continuous structures. Unlike Valev's narrow-minded opinions, real
> physicists are not "bothered" by Einstein's remark, many have been
> INSPIRED by it.
>
> [Don't expect me to respond to further nonsense and insults.
> I will respond to a substantive discussion.]
>
>
> Tom Roberts

Fuck off, bigot.  You are no scientist.