Natural Order and Science

[little_monkey]

In physics, it's important what he said where he was right. In fact, let me rephrase, where he was right it was so important that it revolutionized how we think about those things, but not everything he said was right, and certainly not necessarily important.

But the theories now stand on their own. If we tomorrow found a letter by Einstein recanting and saying how relativity theory was a big lie, it would not matter one iota for the science. Nothing would change.

You can fantasize all you want but thinking that Relativity "lies" is demonstrating a complete lack of understanding in how scientific theory works. Sure, there were theories in the past that got it wrong, but in the case of Relativity, it does explains quite convincingly a number of facts and therefore there will always be a kernel of truth in Relativity.  If there is a new theory sometimes in the future, it will contain Relativity, just like Relativity contains Newtonian physics.