Even Einstein was human
The problem with Albert Einstein is that he and his ideas are so fantastic and the same time so massive, that we cannot question them. So when we are thinking about Einstein's theories, what was fundamental in his lifetime, or when he introduced them to the world, we must remember two things.
Einstein didn't have supercomputers, and when he introduced the Theory of Special Relativity in 1905 and Theory of Common Relativity in 1915, those theories became two of the most awesome and well-known formulas. But we don't know why Einstein created those formulas? Who ordered that man make those theories, and what was hypothesis when that job was given to Einstein?
So there is another thing, what we are many times forget to ask, and that thing is "what were the values, what Einstein used? Did he use the theoretical speed of light, what is 300 000 m/s or did he used the value, what was metered by Michelson, and what is approximately 299 792 458 m/s? The thing is that there are differences with those numbers. And when we are thinking about the time, what Einstein used for creating those formulas, he made excellent work. But he 'forgot that the space is never straight.
When we are calculating things by using extremely long decimal numbers, we can say that Einstein's formulas are not matching with reality. That means that those famous formulas are working in the common and enough large scale, but when we are going to the very small areas there are mistakes. So Einstein's theories work with entirety, but unique details are problems. This is the problem with physics and every other formula in the world.
Those formulas are made in the time, there were no supercomputers and float number algorithms, which can handle extremely long decimal numbers, which gives enough accuracy for calculations. Sometimes people have asked, what if the value for the speed of light, what was reported by Michelson was wrong? In that case, every single laser ranger in the world would show the wrong numbers.
This would open the route for very interesting philosophical discussions about things, what might be wrong, but commonly thought to be right. And if we would someday meter the different value for the speed of light, what would we do? Would we replace the speed of light and other meterings, where were used the laser meter again?
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