Egregoros

Until about 100 years ago, it was generally accepted that time is not an actual physical thing but rather a concept that we created based on the fact that physical processes are not instantaneous.

Then Einstein came along with his SpaceTime nonsense and started convincing people that it's this "thing" we're moving in, and you can in theory go faster or slower or backward...

@cjd GPS didn't work right until they started accounting for relativity.

Yes, I'm not in any way saying that Einstein's math isn't predictive, it absolutely is. My contention is that the model is an excessively complex way of thinking about the universe. It gets to the same answer, but it requires more "magic" than is necessary.

@cjd

I often struggle to articulate this, but I feel something similar... that we try way too hard to bend our theories and equations to fit boservations, to the point of making a tenth-order equation fit a line, when the real explanation (I expect) is a combination of simpler concepts.

@r000t