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Special relativity: from Einstein to strings John H. Schwarz, Patricia M. Schwarz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

There is no sense in which Newton was proved wrong by Einstein. Novella was referring to as "special relativity") wasn't validated by "every single piece of evidence." Einstein's Schwarz's and others' willingness in the 1970s to confront the inadequacies of general relativity and quantum mechanics has lead to string theory, and Witten's dissatisfaction in the 1990's with some aspects of string theory has led to M-theory. Even GR is not applicable everywhere because it fails at singularities like the centre of black holes. Some of the concepts that were introduced The Standard Model of particle physics (containing quarks, electrons, neutrinos, etc). Einstein was in his mid-20's when he published his special theory of relativity, which became an absolutely essential tool for scientists, physicists, theorists and experimentalists around the world today. But if in the end gravitational mass is indeed inertial just mass in another guise – whatever inertial mass is – then it will be the quantum theories of gravity, including string theories, that will find themselves laid upon the sacrificial altar. The role of time in contemporary physics is an interesting topic, and gives opportunity to explain our present understanding of space and time, from Newton over Special and General Relativity to modern Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics .. Your last quote would fall into a certain category with respect to Lee Smolin's book, and with respect to what vanishes. What relativity did is expand the range of physical conditions over which the theory applied. Yet even general relativity as Einstein formulated it in 1915 (which is probably the "1914" theory that Dr. Is also based on relativity and would also mean that string theory, my field, may also be wrong. Special relativity extended the range to include high speeds, and general relativity extended it again to include high gravitational fields.