I don’t think Einstein can be made out to be a villain. He knew what the speed of light was and considered the photon to be massless. As he traveled away from the town clock in the horse and buggy he did a thought experiment and imagined that if he was traveling at the speed of light the clock would appear to stop. I don’t defend special relativity or general relativity but some of it certainly can be defended and demonstrated. Clocks in different accelerated reference frames run at different speeds. That is a great realization. So let’s not make Einstein a villain.
It is true that we may have gone off track since Einstein’s day but maybe we should just say that the errors are due to trying to handle science by committee and by consensus. That has been as big a problem as trying to rewrite General Relativity in a quantum world. The singularity causes it to fail so why explain the failure away. Just accept the realizaton that it takes time for anything to happen and so it is not wrong to consider the connection between time and events. Now to build a spacetime coordinate system that starts with zero volume at a point in time and that requires hyperspace models that the human brain cannot reconcile, that is what I call getting off track.


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