Question by babby: Have you ever had the suspicion that all the theories of Einstein are wrong?
Do you think he felt the same way about his theories and that is why he dedicated the rest of his life trying to find the right answers ?
I hope this is not the case.I love Einstein.
Best answer:
Answer by mike1942f
Nope. And in the latter part of his life, he didn’t do much because of his rejection of the consequences of his theories that others discovered that led to quantum effects.
What do you think? Answer below!
his theories very well could be wrong dont forget many of his theories are still theories they are good theories and explain the universe nicely but still they have not been proven right, some of his theories have already been proven wrong so yes he very well could be wrong he did live in the 30s when physics was still starting up to what it is now
Since they’ve been amazingly accurate in experimental tests up till now, no. Maybe wrong the way Newton’s theories are “wrong”: well within experimental accuracy for most purposes, except under extreme conditions or for extremely precise measurements.
So far we know the conditions under which Newton gets the answer wrong and Einstein gets it right. I don’t think we’ve found the condition yet where Einstein gets it wrong. But no theory lasts forever. I suspect & hope that the whole “dark energy” thing may result in a refinement of Einstein’s gravitational theories.
I think they are a step in the right direction but I also think they are still in their infancy and missing much other pertinent info yet to be theorized or discovered.
Einsteisn theories have been shown to be correct repeatedly over the last 80 or 90 years. Yes, he saw flaws in them, and realized they were incomplete, but that does not make them ‘wrong’
Every scientist spends their life looking for answers, that’s essentially the definition of ‘scientist’. Any scientist who took a dogmatic approach and considered their ideas sacrosanct wouldn’t accomplish much.
I have felt that I did not understand some of Einstein theories, but , since most of his theories have been proven correct by decades of observations, the only theory that may be wrong is the one Einstein questioned himself, the cosmological constant, which he came up with because of the current steady state universe paradigm. Once the paradigm started breaking down, the rest is science history.
“…When Einstein introduced the cosmological constant in his theory of general relativity he did so because he was guided by the paradigm of the day that the universe was static (i.e. neither contracting nor expanding.) The cosmological constant provided a way of balancing the gravitational contraction caused by matter. It was latter discovered by Edwin Hubble that other galaxies appear to be receding away from us, that the universe was actually expanding. When Einstein heard and fully appreciated these observations, he declared that the inclusion of the cosmological constant was his “biggest blunder.”
Einstein’s mistake was not a mathematical one but rather a philosophical one made many times over the history of thought. Einstein held too strongly to the belief that the universe was static and thus was unable to appreciate the power of his theory’s predictions of a dynamic universe. His error serves as an lesson to all thinkers, that we should never close our minds to new possibilities, even if the thought of the day is that they are impossible. Imagine how history would have been changed had Copernicus refused to accept his belief that the sun was actually the center of the solar system, or had Columbus thought he would have fallen off the edge of the Earth. It is hard to know where the next paradigm shift will come from, but we should always be waiting for it. …”
http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/Lambda/blund.html
Speaking as some one who feels like she is trying to break-down the current medical paradigm that type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease, a paradigm that is less than 30 years old, After being a type 1 diabetic for over 54 years and finding out that EVERY single type 1 diabetic had a viral infection before being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, it’s very hard to break-down a paradigm by yourself, because your “out of the box” thinking is more likely to be publicly ridiculed than it is to be seriously considered.
they aren’t wrong. they explain known phenomena and make experimentally testable predictions. do you have a counter-example?
einstein’s rejection of quantum physics was a major mistake that made it impossible for him to find any new answers.
No. Just like many pioneers, some of his work will become dated. For now, he can do no wrong!
well yeah, to be honest, i sometimes doubt about them… still i love Einstein, too.
Absolutely! When I first learned Special Relativity, I got quite adept at the math. Later, we touched on General Relativity, but it is REALLY a tough subject… then a couple decades later, I went back to reading about Special Relativity and it was COMPLETELY different than what I learned.
Maybe I just forgot, or maybe someone’s @#$% with me.
Actually, the vast majority of his work has been confirmed experimentally, and the evidence is all around us. Without his work, though he never knew it, modern GPS would be impossible, along with many other aspects of the world.
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