Timeline for Can a theory that is now wrong be right in the future?
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| Nov 5, 2020 at 11:57 | answer | added | ThisIsMe | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 0:07 | comment | added | CriglCragl | Energy is not conserved, across accelerating expansion of the universe, and over short time periods & length scales. Einstein called introducing the cosmological contant his greatest blunder, because it obscured the necessity of the universe expanding. It is now considered an essential piece of physics en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant#History | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 23:51 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Based on some criteria about what energy conservation should mean, some physicists say that energy is not globally conserved in general relativity, although there are definitions involving coordinate-dependent "pseudo-tensors" where it is conserved. | |
| S Nov 4, 2020 at 19:13 | history | suggested | Tsundoku | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | If some of the answers below satisfies you, please accept it. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 3:19 | answer | added | user9166 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 9:58 | answer | added | user287279 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 8:10 | answer | added | Omegastick | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 23:36 | answer | added | Max | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 21:54 | answer | added | Daiki | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 21:25 | comment | added | Conifold | Scientific "right/wrong" does not apply to every grand generalization. The theory one builds would have to account for the energy being conserved in the classical range, where it is observed. If it does that, while physicists may not adopt such a theory on balance, they will not reject it out of hand either. In fact, minor energy non-conservation was envisioned by some seriously considered past theories, like BKS. And we do not reject or accept theories based on “axioms” only, observations and experiments have something to do with it too. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 21:17 | comment | added | SmootQ | I don't think so, what is demonstrated to be wrong will probably remain so. New theories can only extend other theories, it is not like general relativity or quantum mechanics will suddenly be wrong, and then the mechanistic, absolute and deterministic universe be right. It is already demonstrated that our universe is not deterministic, not absolute and not mechanistic, so : only theories that expand our body of knowledge will survive in the future. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 21:05 | history | asked | Antonios Sarikas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |