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Old March 14th 16, 10:41 PM posted to sci.astro
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Default Einsteinian Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime

Steve Giddings enthusiastically hails gravitational waves, the ripples of spacetime, but rejects the spacetime itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-3k_L79Ek
"Professors of Physics Steve Giddings and George Horowitz as well as Kavli Institute For Theoretical Physics Director Lars Bildsten discuss the recent confirmation of gravitational waves."

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What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "Spacetime. Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... (...) The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..." x

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