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Robert J. Kolker ha scritto:

> Dio wrote:

> > What's the best cosmological theory?
> > 
> > I think Einstein is old fashioned

> The age of a theory is irrelevent. It is the experimental soundness of a 
> theory that counts.

It's not just him that thinks that Einstein's cosmological theory is old
fashioned, but physicists in general. And that has already been going on
for ages. In fact, Einstein thought that the universe is static and
immutable as well as Aristotle did. Of course, the Theory of Relativity is
quite another pair of shoes and it has been proven and applied in
experimental physics long after Einstein had formulated it, both in
particle physics and in astrophysics. Therefore, it appears pretty wrong
to state that Einstein is or not old fashioned: it depends on what part of
Einstein's theory and thoughts we are considering. Among other things,
Einstein thought that "God does not play dice" when interrogated about
quantum mechanics, so that is another issue in which he might be regarded
as 'old fashioned'. One thing alone is clear: there no more room for a
Newtonian view of the universe like a clockwork in which everything can be
pre-determined, but possible interpretations of phenomena are becoming to
appear even more visionary than some religions. Let's just think of
travels through time and the arising paradoxes, or the matter which can
simply come out of nothing according to quantum mechanics, or the
indetermination principle. For this reason a good sceptic believer in
science who does not support religion cannot, in my opinion, be exactly
the other way round, that is an atheist: he could at most be an agnostic.
We are at the moment absolutely unable to know what we cannot perceive by
our deterministic means, what lies in the Thereafter and what will become
of our conscience after death. And what this universe, or the universes
connected through wormholes or whatever they are, means at all.

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