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Originally Posted by pdurrant
But you can never prove that the theory is actually correct - that it, that there are no circumstances under which what the theory predicts will differ from what's actually observed.
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Uh-huh.
Strictly speaking, Einstein is still on probation. Gravity waves or not.
He shot his mouth once too often about quantum theory and there was that whole thing about the fudge factor he put in and later tried to take out and then turned out to be necessary after all...
But until something better comes along...
(I always liked how Doc Smith's 50's SKYLARK revision waved relativity away: "It was a theory... and we *are* moving faster than light.")