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originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Professor Dave makes a pretty convincing case that both Eric and his brother are charlatans, watch this and then tell me what you think about Eric:
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
I am just going by what I have read and watched coming from Eric, he seems to be a top player.
Bret and Eric Weinstein: Brothers in Fraudulence
You seem to be thinking in terms of black/white, right/wrong, which isn't the way to approach this situation.
Also, it is hard to believe that Einstein got it all right decades ago. Einstein no doubt was the leader among theoretical physicists but to think he got it all right is a bit far fetched in my opinion.
Newton's theory matched observations for centuries, and it's so "right" that we still use it predominantly for most things in the modern world. So why would we use a theory that's wrong? I would say it's not really wrong, it applies, as Einstein said, in "the limited case" where velocities are not high relative to the speed of light, and where gravitational fields are not extremely high (such as from a black hole, neutron star, or even the sun). We could barely see the difference in our solar system because the precession of the innermost planet mercury shows a difference in the two theories, because of the sun's gravity.
So, Einstein said that Newton got it right, in most obvious and normal cases, and he had to look hard to find discrepancies where his theory is more accurate.
We might fully expect that someday, we might find the same thing of Einstein's theory, that it seems to match observations in the overwhelming majority of cases, but there may be some exceptions where another theory is required, and there's little doubt that what goes on inside a black hole is a case which requires another theory, such as perhaps a theory of quantum gravity or whatever you want to call it. But, that theory will probably only supplement the gap in Einstein's theory, not replace it, much as Einstein's theory has only patched a gap in Newton's theory, and hasn't really replaced it.