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I don't know about you, but I could never stop loving Einstein on the basis of the story that grew up around him. I have come to realize that his story has been hyped to the hilt for a century precisely because his stuff serves to keep us in the dark. It is close enough to be workable... and the same is true for quantum mechanics... but neither is it. The field has to unify. As far as mainstream physics is concerned it has not unified.
Never mind that Einstein did state publicly that he was not satisfied with his stuff. Neither was he satisfied with quantum physics. In fact, sometime in the twenties he published a paper that either hit the nail on the head or got much closer to it than anyone had at the time, but very soon after he put it out he withdrew it, insisting it was wrong... nothing to see here... move along. Nobody seems to question this. Does anybody believe, truly, that Albert Einstein would, in good faith, have published anything he would be moved to retract that swiftly? That's outright preposterous.
That would have happened only if someone leapt on him and made it a matter of life and death to retract it.
So... I think everyone ought to go a jot easier on him when overturning his stuff.
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