That's interesting because Einstein thought that quantum physics in its emerging state was utterly wrong and had no time for the theories of the time at all. I think string theory and thoeries building on it were later than him but it has always intrigued me that someone so brilliant and lateral would completely close their mind to a new way of thinking.
Just like for many subatomic theories, though, they don't really change what we have already decided works mathematically, we merely add a new layer to the science. It's only the same as the revolution that turned the photon as a packet of energy into a waveform, without detracting from its discreet nature in many circumstances.
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Date: 2007-08-17 07:33 pm (UTC)Just like for many subatomic theories, though, they don't really change what we have already decided works mathematically, we merely add a new layer to the science. It's only the same as the revolution that turned the photon as a packet of energy into a waveform, without detracting from its discreet nature in many circumstances.