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Old January 22nd 16, 01:14 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default The End of Physics

https://edge.org/response-detail/26563
" Nobel Laureate David Gross observed, "Everyone in string theory is convinced...that spacetime is doomed. But we don't know what it's replaced by." Fields medalist Edward Witten also thought that space and time may be "doomed." "

Spacetime is an immediate consequence of Einstein's 1905 constant-speed-of-light postulate:

http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/20...rs-of-gravity/
"Baumgarte began by discussing special relativity, which Einstein developed, 10 years earlier, in 1905, while he was employed as a patent officer in Bern, Switzerland. Special relativity is based on the observation that the speed of light is always the same, independently of who measures it, or how fast the source of the light is moving with respect to the observer. Einstein demonstrated that as an immediate consequence, space and time can no longer be independent, but should rather be considered a new joint entity called "spacetime."

So the immediate consequence is doomed but David Gross and Edward Witten will continue to worship the postulate from which it has been deduced? Yes, Gross and Witten obey the specific logic in Einstein's schizophrenic world. According to this logic, true postulates sometimes entail wrong consequences.

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