Saddened! wrote:
Guy on the radio was saying this could make teleportation of humans possible. Not sure I understand how, but it all seems very interesting. If Einstein's core principals are being smashed to pieces, make you wonder what else we think of as being 'true' isn't exactly how we perceive it.
Relativity is still going to be true enough for it to be useful though, even if this does turn out to be something other than a fault with their measuring methods. Most theories aren't true in that sense. The state of the art in our understanding of evolution is certainly wrong in that it's not an exact description of what is going on. But it's true in the sense that it's a useful model in which to think about what's going on and make some sense of it, and it's true in the sense that new discoveries mostly only alter it rather than force us to screw it up, throw it away and come up with an entirely new theory.
Relativity is in the same boat. Without it nobody could realistically have conceived of nuclear power and we have nuclear power. Black holes were also predicted by relativity, and have since been discovered as real things. These are all clues that there's a lot of truth in relativity, but now we have clues that relativity isn't the full story. Some of its predictive power is lost - the Higgs-Boson particle CERN are looking for is predicted by relativity and possibly doesn't now exist - but it's still useful.
