Don't get me wrong, I have tremendous respect and admiration for Einstein. I think that his synthesis of Special Relativity and Newton's Laws of Gravitation if the form of GR was the single most important achheivement in physics in the twentieth century. And I think he played a large role in the development of physics as a science free from the absolute constraints of empiricism (though I think, considering his animosity towards quantum mechanics, the article's decision to refer to the universe as "Einstein's" is a bit much). And while I recognize the immense importance of trying to verify postulates as profound as his, I think the time has come (has passed, actually) when we stop trying to empirically prove all of Einstein's theories. When we accept his brilliance and stand on his shoulders to see what he could not (instead of second guessing him). When we embrace his spirit and ask questions whose answers may not be verifiable or falsifiable for the forseeable future. Stop going over frame dragging with a fine toothed comb and start asking "What can this tell us about how space and time behave inside the absolute horizon?" Because, after all, Einstein did not dwell on Newton's ideas of absolute space and time. And he would not have wanted us to dwell on his postulates in lieu of providing our own.
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Don't get me wrong, I have tremendous respect and admiration for Einstein. I think that his synthesis of Special Relativity and Newton's Laws of Gravitation if the form of GR was the single most important achheivement in physics in the twentieth century. And I think he played a large role in the development of physics as a science free from the absolute constraints of empiricism (though I think, considering his animosity towards quantum mechanics, the article's decision to refer to the universe as "Einstein's" is a bit much). And while I recognize the immense importance of trying to verify postulates as profound as his, I think the time has come (has passed, actually) when we stop trying to empirically prove all of Einstein's theories. When we accept his brilliance and stand on his shoulders to see what he could not (instead of second guessing him). When we embrace his spirit and ask questions whose answers may not be verifiable or falsifiable for the forseeable future. Stop going over frame dragging with a fine toothed comb and start asking "What can this tell us about how space and time behave inside the absolute horizon?" Because, after all, Einstein did not dwell on Newton's ideas of absolute space and time. And he would not have wanted us to dwell on his postulates in lieu of providing our own.
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