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You forget that SR was published prior to GR and was not subsequently updated in the light of further knowledge. The constant speed of light was assumed to be invariant because it was not known that clocks ticks at different speeds in different gravitational environments...... It is not relativity ...

Because they are two different ways of expressing the same thing gravity and time can be quantised equivalently but this interpretation can never be accommodated within the spacetime narrative because this narrative is founded on a fundamentally flawed a priori assumption, namely the constant speed...

"Obvious Leo" , The circularity of scientific thinking, to which both you and me refer, ( although I see it as a problem and not as an answer), seems to be broken, when, strangely, it yields scientific hypotheses that are empirically validated. How can a mathematically formulated scientifi...

How can concepts be drawn, as they are, from the mathematical language? They can't, and herein lies the problem with logical positivism. d. Thanks for your input. You believe that concepts are not inferrable from mathematics, but that, on the contrary, they precede mathematics, as the necessary “ n...

Two people have asked you whether your concern would be addressed by differentiating science as descriptive versus explanatory. You have not yet responded adequately IMO. To be fair, you did respond to me when I made that point; but not in a way I could understand. You didn't seem to think there's ...

Just to say, it would help if you broke up your post into paragraphs. Welcome aboard. PhilX Attention spans are not what they used to be. Thanks for your 2nd reminder, PhilX. I'm doing my best . As you can see, I have already re-edited my original post by further breaking it down in paragraphs and ...

@Ittiandro, Would your concerns be addressed if we agreed that scientific theories are descriptive rather than explanatory? In other words (as Newton pointed out), his theory of gravity only described how gravity works; the theory does not say what the underlying mechanism is. If we view science as...

Perhaps the only way out of my quandary would be to be assured that notions such as curved space and the related notion of gravity, however conceptually elusive, have been shown to have predictive validity. The confirmation of Einstein's theory of gravity by the observations taken during the solar ...

I have become increasingly interested in physics in recent years, more specifically in the Special and General Relativity. Unfortunately, my mathematical background, limited to college algebra, does not allow me to fully understand some fundamental concepts, especially those of curved space and grav...