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You are correct. The theoretical physics community is about as tribal and dogmatic as a medieval cleric. They will not hesitate to gut any competing theory that would jeopardize a fat grant or research time with the large hadron collider.The thing is, einstein's relativity rests on a single, completely counter-intuitive postulate -- the constancy of the speed of light. I mean, if the fundamental units of physics such as length and time are relative quantities, how can something like the speed of light (a quantity defined by these 'relative' quantities) be constant?
You are correct. The theoretical physics community is about as tribal and dogmatic as a medieval cleric. They will not hesitate to gut any competing theory that would jeopardize a fat grant or research time with the large hadron collider.
The thing is, einstein's relativity rests on a single, completely counter-intuitive postulate -- the constancy of the speed of light. I mean, if the fundamental units of physics such as length and time are relative quantities, how can something like the speed of light (a quantity defined by these 'relative' quantities) be constant?
