(09-24-2011, 01:48)RobertF Wrote: Actually no. In the mid 20th century, Robert Maxwell stated that everything we knew about physics had been discovered and proven. Not ten years passed before we stepped into an age of Einstein's quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. It is not true that the laws of physics have been redefined or proven to wrong. What is true, is that our knowledge of it expanded, thereby potentially disproving certain stuff we know, or think we know, but is massively different from what actually is true.
General relativity and quantum (not Einstein btw) were around before the middle of last century. And it
is that they (special relativity) have been proven wrong, that is exactly what has happened here. General relativity revolves around the idea that nothing can move faster than the speed of light. This isn't a hiccup in a part of a theory: half of the standard model just got thrown out the window.
