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>>General relativity being wrong would be waaaay weirder. If I'm not wrong, Newton's laws can still be held to be true in some cases even inside GR? Some wher
by kamaal 8y ago
>>General relativity being wrong would be waaaay weirder.
If I'm not wrong, Newton's laws can still be held to be true in some cases even inside GR?
Some where in the past, some one could come up with a new model which could show us new truths, and yet could contain GR to be true in some cases.
In GEB, Hofstadter show us part of the ways so see intelligence emerging from noise and garbage, is to understand when you design a system, you start with axioms, truths and rules that are true in a system, could be total garbage in another.
Models are what we use to understand things, That's not how things are.
- dwaltrip 8y agoYes, you are correct. This is actually expected to happen at some point, as GR and quantun field theory are incredibly well tested and yet haven't successfully been combined into one theory. However, when this happens, it will be one of the greatest physics breakthroughs of all time. Because of this, any scientist needs very strong, compelling reasons for trying understand their results in a way that holds GR as somehow broken. The vast majority of of experiments don't have good justification for not treating GR as a given truth.